Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach by Richard M. Sibly, James H. Brown and Astrid Kodric-Brown
English | ISBN: 047067153X , 0470671521 | 2012 | 392 pages | PDF | 10,5 MB
One of the first textbooks in this emerging important field of ecology. Most of ecology is about metabolism: the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals – their metabolic rates – vary predictably with their body size and temperature.