Marsupial Nutrition - Softcover

Hume, Ian D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052159555X ISBN 13: 9780521595551

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'Marsupial Nutrition is an excellent monograph on an active topic. It is destined to be the major reference on the subject for many years, and will surely stimulate much new work in the discipline.' Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Australian Zoologist

Book Description:

Marsupial Nutrition, first published in 1999, describes the diverse food resources used by all groups of marsupials, as well as the digestive and metabolic strategies they employ. Readers from a wide range of areas such as nutrition, ecology, digestive physiology, veterinary science and zoology will be interested in this book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 052159555X
• ISBN 13: 9780521595551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448