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    Physiological ecology : how animals process energy, nutrients, and toxins / William H. Karasov and Carlos Martínez del Rio.

    • 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-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Martinez del Rio, Carlos, 1956-
    • Published/Created:Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Animal ecophysiology.
    • Description:xiv, 741 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780691074535 (clothbound : alk. paper)
      0691074534 (clothbound : alk. paper)
    • 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.
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