Research Catalog

Title

Scaling, why is animal size so important? / Knut Schmidt-Nielsen.

Author

Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut, 1915-2007

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Details

Description

xi, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Anatomy, Comparative
• Animal Population Groups > anatomy & histology
• Animals > anatomy & histology
• Body size
• Morphology (Animals)
• Physiology, Comparative

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [225]-236.

Contents

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 means? -- 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 -- Swimming and flying -- Body temperature and temperature regulation -- Some important concepts.

ISBN

• 0521266572
• 0521319870 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^84005841^

OCLC

10697247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library