Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Animal ecology --- Body size

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that physical laws are equally important, for they determine rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and other aspects of the functioning of animal bodies. Physical laws provide possibilities and opportunities for an organism, yet they also impose constraints, setting limits to what is physically possible. This book aims to give an understanding of these rules because of their profound implications when we deal with animals of widely different size and scale. The reader will find that the book raises many questions. Remarkable and puzzling information makes it read a little like a detective story, but the last chapter, instead of giving the final solution, neither answers all questions nor provides one great unifying principle.

Body size. --- Morphology (Animals)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Scaling relationships have been a persistent theme in biology at least since the time of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. While there have been many excellent empirical and theoretical investigations, there has been little attempt to synthesize this diverse but interrelated area of biology. In an effort to fill this void, Scaling in Biology, the first general treatment of scaling in biology in over 15 years, covers a broad spectrum of the most relevant topics in a series of chapters written by experts in the field. Some of those topics discussed include allometry and fractal structure, branching of vascular systems of mammals and plants, biomechanical and life history of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, and species-area patterns of biological diversity.

Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Body size --- Morphology (Animals) --- Biomathematics. --- Body size. --- Morphology (Animals).

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Animal ecology. --- Body size. --- Physiology. --- Animal ecology --- Body size --- Physiology --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Animal size --- Size of body --- Morphology (Animals) --- Somatotypes --- Anthropometry --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Size

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Obesity --- Body weight. --- Anthropometry --- Body size --- Weights and measures --- Body composition --- Weight gain --- Weight loss --- Treatment.