Integrative Wildlife Nutrition

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By Perry S. Barboza, Katherine L. Parker and Ian D. Hume

Integrative Wildlife Nutrition presents a comparative and ecological approach to understanding how wild animals acquire, process, and allocate nutrients across different environments. The book integrates principles of animal physiology, nutrition, and ecology to explain how energy and nutrients connect individuals to populations, communities, and entire ecosystems.

Rather than focusing solely on digestion and metabolism, this work links behavioral, morphological, and biochemical traits to life-history strategies and population dynamics. It provides a practical framework for understanding nutritional limitations in wildlife, managing harvested species, and conserving threatened populations.

Authored by Perry S. Barboza, Katherine L. Parker, and Ian D. Hume, the book draws on decades of teaching and research experience across North America and Australia. It is widely used as a reference and teaching text in wildlife biology, conservation biology, and animal physiology programs.

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Table of Contents

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

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