Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition
eBook - PDF

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition

About this book

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition is the fifth in a series of books on animal feeding and nutrition. It fills a serious gap in the wildlife and animal nutrition literature by providing a discussion of the basic principles of nutrition and their application to the broader field of wildlife ecology. This book is based on lectures presented in an upper-level wildlife nutrition course taught at Washington State University. The book discusses the five major nutritional categories of constituents that animals must acquire from their external environments: energy, protein, water, minerals, and vitamins. Subsequent chapters cover topics such as the estimation of energy and protein requirements; dietary protein requirements for captive wildlife and free-ranging populations; wildlife reproductive characteristics; the digestion and metabolism of nutrients; and food intake regulation. The text will be invaluable to wildlife biologists, to those who are interested in captive animal nutrition and management, and to those who are interested in improving the feed supply and nutrition of free-ranging wildlife.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780323154529
Print ISBN
9780125893800
Subtopic
Zoology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
  8. Chapter 2. General Nutrient and Energy Requirements
  9. Chapter 3. Protein
  10. Chapter 4. Water
  11. Chapter 5. Minerals
  12. Chapter 6. Vitamins
  13. Chapter 7. Estimation of Energy and Protein Requirements
  14. Chapter 8. Protein Requirements for Maintenance
  15. Chapter 9. Reproductive Costs
  16. Chapter 10. Productive Costs
  17. Chapter 11. Food Resources and Their Utilization
  18. Chapter 12. Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Function
  19. Chapter 13. Digestion and Nutrient Metabolism
  20. Chapter 14. Food Intake Regulation
  21. Chapter 15. Computer Models of the Nutritional Interaction
  22. Index

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