Marsupial Nutrition
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- Author: Ian D. Hume, University of Sydney
- Date Published: June 1999
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521595551
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Marsupial Nutrition describes the food resources used by marsupials from small insectivores to large folivores. It discusses the ways in which these animals' 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 in the areas of vertebrate zoology, nutrition, ecology, and digestive physiology will find Marsupial Nutrition particularly instructive, and 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
"Although its title sounds esoteric, this book is of potentially great interest not only for physiologists but also for evolutionists, vertebrate zoologists, wildlife biologists, and mammalian systematists of all sorts...This book is an exceptionally interesting example of how expertly done organismic biology can combine information from cranial and dental anatomy, physiology, soft anatomy, and ecology to yield a pioneering synthesis such as this. Copius and well-chosen illustrations make this book a pleasure to study. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and all researchers in mammalogy and mammalian paleontology." CHOICE
See more reviews"This is a book that every serious student of marsupials must possess...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. The book has been produced to the high standard one expects from Cambridge and is well worth the price of a dinner for two at a Sydney restaurant." Australian Zoologist
"Hume does a superb job of synthesizing an enormous amount of literature into a coherent and thought-provoking book. It is highly recommended for anyone who works in mammalogy, nutritional ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, wildlife ecology, animal biology or foraging behavior. It would serve as an excellent reference for a graduate course in digestive physiology." The Quarterly Review of Biology
"[W]ill prove a useful reference for zoologists working in comparative nutrition, ecology, or digestive physiology. If this is your area of study, there is no substitute. Veterinarians and nutritionists with interest in this subject will also be well rewarded." Canadian Veterinary Journal
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- Date Published: June 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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