Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A guide to the book
- 1 Putting two and two together
- 2 Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking
- 3 Aspects of energy metabolism
- 4 Getting things in proportion
- 5 Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios
- 6 Building a trophic pyramid
- 7 Sodium in animals and plants
- 8 Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide
- 9 A geometric series
- 10 Introduction to logarithms
- 11 Bringing logarithms to life
- 12 Exponential relationships
- 13 Aspects of allometry
- 14 More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature
- 15 How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding
- 16 The characterization of trees and other branching systems
- 17 Epilogue
- References
- Notes
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A guide to the book
- 1 Putting two and two together
- 2 Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking
- 3 Aspects of energy metabolism
- 4 Getting things in proportion
- 5 Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios
- 6 Building a trophic pyramid
- 7 Sodium in animals and plants
- 8 Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide
- 9 A geometric series
- 10 Introduction to logarithms
- 11 Bringing logarithms to life
- 12 Exponential relationships
- 13 Aspects of allometry
- 14 More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature
- 15 How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding
- 16 The characterization of trees and other branching systems
- 17 Epilogue
- References
- Notes
- Index
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- Biology by NumbersAn Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking, pp. 224 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998