Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important?

This short, non-mathematical discussion of how the physical size of an animal affects its physiological functions can be read profitably by both students and professional scientists. Elegantly written, the book illuminates those physical laws controlling rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and so on. It shows how these laws have profound implications for animals of widely different size and scale and why the size of living things is of such fundamental importance.Knut Schmidt-Nielsen is the author of 'Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important?', published 1984 under ISBN 9780521266574 and ISBN 0521266572.