The overriding currency of all animal life is energy. Animals have evolved strategies of
energy acquisition and use, but these strategies also experience tradeoffs between energy …

Metabolic energy demand is both a cause and consequence of how animals interact with
their environments. Describing patterns of metabolism and understanding the drivers …

This chapter is about how energy is acquired and used to maximize fitness in marine
mammals. In simple terms, energetics includes the processes used to change fuel in the …

Over the past several decades, scientists have constructed bioenergetic models for marine
mammals to assess potential population-level consequences following exposure to a …

Why study energetics? An understanding of energy flow through a single organism or a
community made up of multiple organisms provides insight into the relative importance of …

Bioenergetic models describe the processes through which animals acquire energy from
resources in the environment and allocate it to different life history functions. They capture …

Wild animals are under selective pressure to optimise energy budgets; therefore, quantifying
energy expenditure, intake and allocation to specific activities is important if we are to …

Publisher Summary Energetics provides a method to quantitatively assess the effort animals
spend acquiring resources, as well as the relative way in which they allocate those …

Bioenergetics is the study of how animals achieve energetic balance. Energetic balance
results from the energetic expenditure of an individual and the energy they extract from their …

Bioenergetic approaches are increasingly used to understand how marine mammal
populations could be affected by a changing and disturbed aquatic environment. There …