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Physiological ecology : how animals process energy, nutrients, and toxins / William H. Karasov and Carlos Martínez del Rio.
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Title:Physiological ecology : how animals process energy, nutrients, and toxins / William H. Karasov and Carlos Martínez del Rio.
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Author/Creator:Karasov, William H., 1953-
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Other Contributors/Collections:Martinez del Rio, Carlos, 1956-
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Published/Created:Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QP82 .K34 2007
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QP82 .K34 2007
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Number of Items:1
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Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-15-2024
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Animal ecophysiology.
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Description:xiv, 741 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780691074535 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0691074534 (clothbound : alk. paper)
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Contents:Ch. 1. Basic concepts : budgets, allometry, temperature, and the imprint of history
Ch. 2. chemistry and biology of food
Ch. 3. Food intake and utilization efficiency
Ch. 4. Simple guts : the ecological biochemistry and physiology of catalytic digestion
Ch. 5. Photosynthetic animals and gas-powered mussels : the physiological ecology of nutritional symbioses
Ch. 6. Digestive symbioses : how insect and vertebrate herbivores cope with low quality plant foods
Ch. 7. Postabsorptive processing of nutrients
Ch. 8. Isotopic ecology
Ch. 9. How animals deal with poisons and pollutants
Ch. 10. Ecological stoichiometry
Ch. 11. Nitrogen and mineral requirements
Ch. 12. Water requirement and water flux
Ch. 13. Growth in budgets of mass and energy
Ch. 14. Reproduction in budgets of mass and energy.