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Paperback Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important? Book

ISBN: 0521319870

ISBN13: 9780521319874

Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important?

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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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Oriented toward physiology

Schmidt-Nielsen's "Scaling: why is animal size so important" is a readable introduction to the influence of size on physiology (and vice versa). As noted in a previous review, the chapter describing structural engineering is relatively weak, but the chapters discussing allometric concepts, metabolism, thermoregulation, and physiological time are excellent. Other chapters address respiration and circulation.Unfortunately, Schmidt-Nielsen glosses over the ecological ramifications of the physiological mechanisms described in this book. For the ecologically oriented, I recommend Calder's "Size, function, and life history."All in all, an eye-opener and a heck of a lot more fun to read than most technical works.
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