Scaling : Why Is Animal Size So Important?
by Knut Schmidt-NielsenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1984-07-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This short, non-mathematical discussion of how the physical size of an animal affects its physiological functions can be read profitably by both students and professional scientists. Elegantly written, the book illuminates those physical laws controlling rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and so on. It shows how these laws have profound implications for animals of widely different size and scale and why the size of living things is of such fundamental importance.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The size of living things | |
| Problems of size and scale | |
| The use of allometry | |
| How to scale eggs | |
| The strength of bones and skeletons | |
| Metabolic rate and body size | |
| Warm-blooded vertebrates: what do metabolic regression equations mean? | |
| Organ size and tissue metabolism | |
| How the lungs supply enough oxygen | |
| Blood and gas transport | |
| Heart and circulation | |
| The meaning of time | |
| Animal activity and metabolic scope | |
| Moving on land: running and jumping | |
| Swimmng and flying | |
| Body temperature and temperature regulation | |
| Some important concepts | |
| Appendixes | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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