Reproductive energetics in mammals : the proceedings of a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 10th and 11th April 1986
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書誌事項
Reproductive energetics in mammals : the proceedings of a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 10th and 11th April 1986
（Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, no. 57）
Published for the Zoological Society of London by Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1987
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注記
Includes bibliographies and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book brings together articles by scientists from diverse backgrounds to review the current state of knowledge on reproductive energetics. It is in this area that the boundaries between ecology and physiology become most blurred. The reproductive success of most mammals is ultimately linked to their nutrition and hence to their environment; yet the mechanisms whereby nutrition regulates fertility and inter-birth interval, lactation, is timed to coincide with peak food supply, and clues such as change in day-length influence on seasonal breeding patterns and metabolic rates, are only just beginning to be understood. The book also compares information gained from populations in the wild with captive animals and considers the implications for the management of agricultural production. One chapter examines a human population living in an area of limited food supply. The book is aimed at research scientists in zoos, ecologists, reproductive biologists, physiologists and zoologists, veterinarians, and anthropologists.
目次
- R.M. Laws: Introduction: a historical perspective
- M.E. Nicoll & Steven D. Thompson: Basal metabolic rates and energetics of reproduction in therian mammals: marsupials and placentals compared
- Brian K. McNab: The reproduction of marsupial and eutherian mammals in relation to energy expenditure
- John L. Gittleman & Olav T. Oftedal: Comparative growth and lactation energetics in carnivores
- Allen Kurta & Thomas H. Kunz: Size of bats at birth and maternal investment during pregnancy
- P.A. Racey & J.R. Speakman: The energy costs of pregnancy and lactation in heterothermic bats
- Andrew S.I. Loudon: The reproductive energetics of lactation in a seasonal macropodid marsupial: comparison of marsupial and eutherian herbivores
- R.W. Rose: Reproductive energetics of two Tasmanian rat-kangaroos (Potoroinae : Marsupialia)
- January Weiner: Limits to energy budget and tactics in energy investments during reproduction in the Djungarian hamster ( Phodopus sungorus sungorus Pallas 1770)
- J.A. Milne: The effect of litter and maternal size on reproductive performance of grazing ruminants
- N.J.C. Tyler: Body composition and energy balance of pregnant and non-pregnant Svalbard reindeer during winter
- John S. Millar: Energy reserves in breeding small rodents
- Polley Ann McClure: The energetics of reproduction and life histories of cricetine rodents ( Neotoma floridana and Sigmodon hispidus )
- G.J. Kenagy: Energy allocation for reproduction in the golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Andrew M. Prentice & Roger G. Whitehead: The energetics of human reproduction
- P.D. Watts & S.E. Hansen: Cyclic starvation as a reproductive strategy in the polar bear
- Sheila S. Anderson & Michael A. Fedak: The energetics of sexual success of grey seals and comparison with the costs of reproduction in other pinnipeds
- Christina Lockyer: The relationship between body fat, food resource and reproductive energy costs in north Atlantic fin whales ( Balaenoptera physalus ).
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