Marsupial Nutrition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Marsupial Nutrition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ian D. Hume
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:450
Dimensions(mm): Height 244,Width 170
Category/GenreBiochemistry
Animal physiology
Marsupials
ISBN/Barcode 9780521595551
ClassificationsDewey:572.4192
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 39 Halftones, unspecified; 93 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 May 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Marsupial Nutrition 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.

Reviews

'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