Full title: Biology by numbers : an encouragement to quantitative thinking / Richard F. Burton.

Author/creator: Burton, R. F. (Richard F.).

Date: 1998..

Call Numbers: T0393807

Record Identifier: 74VM43mwLggM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xvi, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., 1. Putting two and the 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 rations -- 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 and 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.

Publishers: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index. Transferred from N570.151/2.

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DDC: 570.151

MMS ID: 991001416909702626