Scaling Why Is Animal Size So Important?

Name: Scaling Why Is Animal Size So Important?
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ISBN: 9780521319874

ISBN-10: 0521319870

ISBN-13: 9780521319874

Edition: 1984

Authors: Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

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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…

Book details

List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/27/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



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