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001 2011038631
003 DLC
005 20121103081419.0
008 110915s2012 ilua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011038631
020 $a9780226561226 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 $a9780226561233 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $a0226561224 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 $a0226561232 (paperback : alkaline paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQP135$b.M38 2012
082 00 $a599$223
100 1 $aMcNab, Brian Keith,$d1932-
245 10 $aExtreme measures :$bthe ecological energetics of birds and mammals /$cBrian K. McNab.
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2012.
300 $ax, 312 p. :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [261]-294) and index.
505 0 $aFundamentals -- Basic energetics -- Controversies in the analysis of quantitative data -- Ecological consequences -- A general analysis of BMR -- Small and large -- A diversity of food habits -- Life in the cold -- Life in hot dry and warm moist environments -- Evasions -- Field existences -- Island life -- An active life -- Life in the field -- The limits to geographic distribution -- Population consequences -- A pouched (and egg-laying) life -- Energetics and the population biology of endotherms -- Evolutionary consequences -- The evolution of endothermy -- The restrictions and liberations of history -- The future -- Global issues: the limitation to a long-term future.
650 0 $aWarm-blooded animals$xEcology.
650 0 $aWarm-blooded animals$xEvolution.
650 0 $aBioenergetics.
650 0 $aBody temperature$xRegulation.
650 0 $aBasal metabolism.