Marsupial Nutrition
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- Author: Ian D. Hume, University of Sydney
- Date Published: May 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521595551
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Marsupial Nutrition, first published in 1999, describes the food resources used by marsupials as diverse as small insectivores and large folivores. It discusses the ways in which their digestive systems and metabolism are designed to cope with foods as different as nectar and fungus, tree sap and tough perennial grasses, and insects and eucalypt foliage. Although the subject species are marsupials, the general principles of nutritional ecology and digestive strategies that are introduced at the beginning of the chapters are applicable to all mammals. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students at all levels in the area of vertebrate zoology, nutrition, ecology and digestive physiology will find Marsupial Nutrition particularly instructive, but wildlife biologists, veterinarians and nutritionists will also find much of interest.
Read more- Combines basic concepts of nutrition applicable to mammals as well as marsupials, with a comprehensive description of structure and function
- Copiously illustrated with line diagrams and photographs
- Complete coverage of all South American, Australian and New Guinean marsupials, placing their nutrition and metabolism within an ecological context
Awards
- Whitley Medal
Reviews & endorsements
'Marsupial Nutrition is an excellent monograph on an active topic. It is destined to be the major reference on the subject for many years, and will surely stimulate much new work in the discipline.' Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Australian Zoologist
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- Date Published: May 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521595551
- length: 450 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 132 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Metabolic rates and nutrient requirements
2. Carnivorous marsupials
3. Omnivorous marsupials
4. Hindgut fermenters - the wombats
5. Hindgut fermenters - the arboreal folivores
6. Foregut fermenters - kangaroos and wallabies
7. Nutritional ecology of kangaroos and wallabies
8. Foregut fermenters - the rat-kangaroos
9. Evolution of marsupials and of digestive systems
10. Future directions
Appendix
References.
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