Body Composition Analysis of Animals

'... a well-structured book that provides a sufficiently complete overview of methods for the analysis of body composition that are potentially applicable to field studies of wild animals ... a worthy addition to the library stacks and your own personal library.' Donald Thomas, Journal of Experimental Biology This book has definitely fulfilled its stated goal of providing a useful summary of noninvasive methods of body composition analysis for animal sciences... This book has the potential to become a standard reference for anyone studying body composition, be it animal or human. Kenneth J. Ellis, Quarterly Review of Biology Highly informative compilation containing theoretical and practical considerations of eight procedures that have been employed successfully to examine the body composition of animals... Overall, this book is user friendly, with subject and taxon indices that are thoughtfully compiled to facilitate navigation through the book and a subject index that is comprehensive... It makes for fascinating reading and should facilitate the planning of research programs, saving laborious hours of background reading and providing the wherewithal to carry out body composition analysis, both efficiently and successfully. S. James Reynolds, Ecology John Speakman has brought together a group of authors who blend traditional, established, analytical methods with more cutting edge techniques and methodologies.... this book is an excellent resource and it should become a standard reference text for anyone considering studies on body composition. Ecoscience ...it is a book that a researcher will want to check out and consult repeatedly in designing an ecological study...this is an extremely valuable book. There is no similar work that brings together multiple methods of non-destructive analysis for comparison and contrast...any library that supports an ecology community should definetly have this book on its shelves- or, more likely, in the hands of its patrons. E-Streams