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McNab, Brian K.

1966. The Metabolism of Fossorial Rodents: A Study of Convergence. Ecology, 47:712-733, 19 figures, 5 tables.

1970. Body Weight and the Energetics of Temperature Regulation. Journal of Experimental Biology, 53:329-348, 9 figures, 3 tables, table of symbols.

1978a. The Comparative Energetics of Neotropical Marsupials. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 125:115-128, 14 figures, 3 tables.

1978b. Energetics of Arboreal Folivores: Physiological Problems and Ecological Consequences of Feeding on an Ubiquitous Food Supply. In G. G. Montgomery, editor, The Ecology of Arboreal Folivores, pages 153-162, 10 figures, 3 tables. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1979a. Climatic Adaptation in the Energetics of Heteromyid Rodents. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 62A:813-820, 6 figures.

1979b. The Influence of Body Size on the Energetics and Distribution of Fossorial and Burrowing Mammals. Ecology, 60:1010-1021, 12 figures, 1 table.

1980a. Food Habits, Energetics, and the Population Biology of Mammals. The American Naturalist, 116:106-124, 9 figures, 1 table.

1980b. On Estimating Thermal Conductance in Endotherms. Physiological Zoology, 53:145-156, 5 figures, 1 table.

1983a. Ecological and Behavioral Consequences of Adaptation to Various Food Resources. In J. F. Eisenberg and D. G. Kleiman, editors, Advances in the Study of Mammalian Behavior. American Society of Mammalogists, special publication, 7:664-697, 12 figures, 2 tables.

1983b. Energetics, Body Size, and the Limits to Endothermy. Journal of Zoology, London, 199:1-29, 16 figures.

1984a. Physiological Convergence amongst Ant-Eating and Termite-Eating Mammals. Journal of Zoology, London, 203:485-510, 19 figures, 2 tables.

1984b. Commentary. Oecologia (Berlin), 64:423-424.

1986a. The Influence of Food Habits on the Energetics of Eutherian Mammals. Ecological Monographs, 56:1-19, 6 figures, 2 tables, 1 appendix.

1986b. Food Habits, Energetics, and the Reproduction of Marsupials. Journal of Zoology, London, 208:595-614, 10 figures, 1 table.

1988a. Complications Inherent in Scaling the Basal Rate of Metabolism in Mammals. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 63:25-54, 6 figures, 4 tables.

1988b. Energy Conservation in a Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) and the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens). Physiological Zoology, 61:280-292, 9 figures.

1989. Basal Rate of Metabolism, Body Size, and Food Habits in the Order Carnivora. In John L. Gittleman, editor, Carnivore Behavior Ecology, and Evolution, pages 335-354, 3 figures, 1 table. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

McNab, Brian K., and Peter Morrison

1963. Body Temperature and Metabolism in Subspecies of Peromyscus from Arid and Mesic Environments. Ecological Monographs, 33:63-82, 26 figures, 7 tables.

Mech, L. David, Donald M. Barnes, and John R. Tester

1968. Seasonal Weight Changes, Mortality, and Population Structure of Raccoons in Minnesota. Journal of Mammalogy, 49:63-73, 2 figures, 3 tables.

Mellen, William J.

1963. Body Size and Metabolic Rate in the Domestic Fowl. Agricultural Science Review, Fall:20-26, and 49, 1 figure.

Mugaas, John N., and James R. King

1981. Annual Variation of Daily Energy Expenditure by the Black-billed Magpie: A Study of Thermal and Behavioral Energetics. Studies in Avian Biology, 5: viii + 78 pages, 14 figures, 18 tables, list of symbols, 1 appendix.

Mugaas, John N., and John Seidensticker

Ms. Geographic Variation of Lean Body Mass, and a Model of Its Effect on the Capacity of the Raccoon to Fatten and Fast.

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