Physiological Ecology

Name: Physiological Ecology | How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins
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How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins

William H. Karasov Carlos Martínez del Rio(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 5. Mai 2020

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Cover page
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents page
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: Overview
Chapter one: Basic Concepts: Budgets, Allometry, Temperature, and The Imprint of History
1.1 The Input/Output Budget: A Key Conceptual Framework
1.2 The Importance of Size: Scaling of Physiological and Ecological Traits
1.3 The Importance of Temperature
1.4 Using Historical Data in Comparative Studies
Section II: Chemical Ecology Of Food
Chapter Two: The Chemistry and Biology of Food
2.1 Getting Started
First Catch (Store and Prepare) the Hare
2.2 Proximate Nutrient Analysis
2.3 Dietary Fiber
2.4 Carbohydrates
2.5 Amino Acids and Proteins
2.6 Lipids
2.7 Vitamins
2.8 Minerals
2.9 Secondary Metabolites
2.10 Words of Encouragement
Section III: Digestive Ecology
Chapter Three: Food Intake and Utilization Efficiency
3.1 Overview of Section III: Why Study Digestion?
3.2 Digestive Efficiency is Inversely Related to "Fiber" Content
3.3 Both Digestion Rate and Digestive Efficiency are Key Nutritional Variables
3.4 Daily Food Intake: Energy Maximization or Regulation?
Chapter Four: Simple Guts: The Ecological Biochemistry and Physiology of Catalytic Digestion
4.1 Lots of Guts, But Only a Few Basic Types
4.2 The Gut as a Bottleneck to Energy Flow
4.3 The Gut in Energy Intake Maximizers
4.4 Intermittent Feeders
4.5 The Gut in Diet Switchers
4.6 The Evolutionary Match between Digestion, Diets, and Animal Energetics
4.7 Summary: The Interplay between Digestive Physiology and Ecology
Chapter Five: Photosynthetic Animals and Gas-Powered Mussels: The Physiological Ecology of Nutritional Symbioses
5.1 A Symbiotic World
5.2 A Diversity of Nutritional Symbioses
5.3 Hot Vents and Cold Seeps: Chemolithotrophs of the Deep Sea
5.4 The Importance of Nitrogen in Nutritional Symbioses
Chapter Six: Digestive Symbioses: How Insect and Vertebrate Herbivores Cope with Low Quality Plant Foods
6.1. Fermentation of Cell Wall Materials
6.2. Microbial Fermentation in Insect Guts
6.3. Terrestrial Vertebrates
6.4. Herbivory and Detritivory in Fish
Section IV: The Ecology Of Postabsorptive Nutrient Processing
Chapter Seven: Postabsorptive Processing of Nutrients
7.1 Overview: The Postabsorptive Fate of Absorbed Materials
7.2 Controls over Postabsorptive Processing
7.3 Costs of Digestive and Postabsorptive Processing
7.4 Feast and Famine: The Biochemistry of Natural Fasting and Starvation
7.5 Biochemical Indices of Nutritional Status and Habitat Quality
Chapter Eight: Isotopic Ecology
8.1 Basic Principles
8.2 Mixing Models
8.3 Isotopic Signatures
8.4 The Dynamics of Isotopic Incorporation
8.5 Stable Isotopes and Migration
8.6 Nitrogen Isotopes
8.7 Concluding Remarks and (Yet Again) a Call for Laboratory Experiments
Chapter Nine: How Animals Deal with Poisons and Pollutants
9.1 Overview: The Postabsorptive Fate of Absorbed Xenobiotics
9.2 Distribution of Xenobiotics in the Body
9.3 Biotransformation of Absorbed Xenobiotics
9.4 Elimination of Xenobiotics and Their Metabolites
9.5 Costs of Xenobiotic Biotransformation and Elimination
9.6 Modeling Approaches Can Integrate the Processes of Absorption, Distribution, and Elimination (Including Biotransformation and Excretion)
9.7 Models Can Predict Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification in Ecosystems
9.8 Postingestional Effects of Xenobiotics on Feeding Behavior
9.9 Toxic Effects of Xenobiotics in Wild Animals
9.10 Toxicogenomics: New Methodologies for the Integrative Study of Exposure, Postabsorptive Processing, and Toxicity in Animals Exposed to Natural and Manmade Toxins
Section V: Limiting Nutrients
Chapter Ten: Ecological Stoichiometry
10.1 Ecological Stoichiometry: The Power of Elemental Analysis
10.2 An Ecological Stoichiometry Primer
10.3 Are Energy and Elements Two Independent Currencies?
Chapter Eleven: Nitrogen and Mineral Requirements
11.1 Nitrogen Requirements and Limitation in Ecology
11.2 Mineral Requirements and Limitation in Ecology
Chapter Twelve: Water Requirement and Water Flux
12.1 Water Budgets, Fluxes, and Requirements
12.2 Avenues of Water Loss
12.3 The Dietary Requirement for Water
12.4 Ingestion of Xenobiotics Can Increase the Dietary Requirement for Water
12.5 Is Water Ecologically Limiting?
12.6 Testing the Evolutionary Match between Environmental Aridity and Water Relations
Section VI: Production In Budgets Of Mass And Energy
Chapter Thirteen: Growth in Budgets of Mass and Energy
13.1 Overview of Chapters 13 and 14
13.2 Two Approaches Are Used to Evaluate Costs of Production
13.3 Energetics of Growth
13.4 Rates of Growth
13.5 Growth in Relation to Life History Transitions
Chapter Fourteen: Reproduction in Budgets of Mass and Energy
14.1 Allocation to Reproduction: Trade-off with Development and Effects of Body Size
14.2 Approaches for Measuring Costs of Reproduction
14.3 Material Costs of Reproduction
14.4 Nutritional Control of Reproduction
14.5 Putting Energy and Material Costs of Reproduction in Perspective
Index

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