Integrative Wildlife Nutrition

• Functional Relationships.- Introduction: Common Themes Across Diverse Taxa.- Food and Populations.- Feeding Dynamics: Functional and Behavioral Responses.- Measuring Food Consumption.- Digestive Function.- Substrates and Tissue Constituents.- Carbohydrates: Sugars, Fiber and Fermentation.- Lipids: Fatty Acids and Adipose Tissue.- Nitrogenous Substrates: Nucleic Acids to Amino Excretion.- Metabolic Constituents: Water, Minerals and Vitamins.- Energy and Integration.- Energy: Carbon as a Fuel and a Tissue Constituent.- Integrating Nutrient Supply and Demand in Variable Environments.

From the reviews: "The combined insights and disciplinary specialties of Barboza (Univ. of Alaska), Parker ... and Hume (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) successfully meld to provide this unique resource for the wildlife scientist. ... The use of simple, standard-format tables for calculation examples throughout the text provides the reader a welcome tool as well as familiar continuity. ... References throughout are comprehensive, the writing style is seamless, and figures, photos, and tables are appropriate in number. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (E. S. Dierenfeld, Choice, Vol. 47 (3), November, 2009)