Bioenergetics Of Aquatic Animals

Bioenergetics Of Aquatic Animals
Author: Albert Lucas
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2002-04-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0203483502

This text applies bioenergetics to aquatic animals and explores its role in aquaculture and fisheries science. It seeks to provide a compact account of bioenergetics in aquaculture and clarify problems encountered in the areas of fisheries and

Fish Bioenergetics

Fish Bioenergetics
Author: M. Jobling
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1994-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780412580901

Looks at the relationship of fish to the food they eat, their growth and responses to the environment. The physiology and nutrition of fish are examined from an energetic standpoint, with the environmental influences upon feeding and growth being emphasized.

Bioenergetics and Energy Metabolism in Crustaceans

Bioenergetics and Energy Metabolism in Crustaceans
Author: Bhaskar L.V.K.S.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1329879279

Bioenergetics is the study of balance between energy supply and energy expenditure and requires an examination of physiological processes through which energy is transformed in living organisms. Studies on the flow and allocation of energy in biological systems often have, as their ultimate goal, the construction of a budget describing the partitioning of energy within an individual or population. Such budgets are then used to make inference about physiology or ecology in particular explaining why an organism or population does what it is observed to do assuming that energy allocation is the overriding concern. Bioenergetic modelling is an alternative method for estimating feeding rates in a natural population. These models quantify the relationship between feeding rates and growth relative to temperature, body size and activity. Bioenergetic models have been applied to address ecological questions in a wide variety of taxa.

Fish Nutrition

Fish Nutrition
Author: John Halver
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0323142966

Fish Nutrition aims to present the state of knowledge of basic and applied nutritional requirements of fishes. Most of the information found in this book involves salmonids, their nutrition, and metabolism of nutrients. This is in view of the fact that more research has been done and completed with this fish. Although applied fish nutrition is a very broad field, this book focuses on some of its aspects. These include the classes of nutrients and requirements for several types of fishes. This book comprises of 11 chapters. The first few chapters deal with the general nutrient requirements of fishes. Then, other chapters discuss calorie and energy as well as micro- and macronutrient needs and requirements. The following chapters deal with the non-nutrient components of the diet, or those that influence the characteristics of food products including texture, odor, flavor, and color. Other topics covered are enzymes and systems of intermediary metabolism (Chapter 6); feed formulation and evaluation (Chapter 7); and salmonid husbandry techniques (Chapter 9). Nutritional fish diseases are also discussed in this book. Some of these diseases include thyroid tumor, gill disease, anemia, lipoid liver degeneration, and visceral granuloma. In Chapter 11, the relationship of nutrition and pathology is given emphasis. This chapter also tackles the diet and general fish husbandry. This topic is very important, because an adequate diet for fish husbandry is the foundation of fish farming.

Bioenergetics of Marine Mammals

Bioenergetics of Marine Mammals
Author: Jennifer L. Maresh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9781321088052

Metabolic energy demand is both a cause and consequence of how animals interact with their environments. Describing patterns of metabolism and understanding the drivers underscoring those patterns have been long-standing goals of biology for almost a century. Mammals are often the subject of comparative metabolism studies, and it is clear that their metabolic rates are determined by a complex interaction between a host of morphological, ecological, behavioral and evolutionary factors. In contrast, metabolism is often considered to be less complex for marine mammals, that is, uniformly high across all groups. This perception is the result of a paradigm that took root when determinations on marine mammals were relatively rare, and it has persisted despite a growing number of studies reporting low to moderate metabolic rates in some species.