Marsupial nutrition
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Marsupial nutrition
Cambridge University Press, c1999
- : hb
- : pbk.
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-417) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Marsupial Nutrition, first published in 1999, describes the food resources used by marsupials as diverse as small insectivores and large folivores. It discusses the ways in which their 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 at all levels in the area of vertebrate zoology, nutrition, ecology and digestive physiology will find Marsupial Nutrition particularly instructive, but wildlife biologists, veterinarians and nutritionists will also find much of interest.
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.
by "Nielsen BookData"