Brian K. McNab

Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1962

428 BAR
Box 118525
Gainesville, FL
32611-8525
Voice: (352) 392-1178
Fax: (352) 392-3704
BKM@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Ecological and physiological influences on the comparative energetics of endotherms, with special emphasis on tropical mammals and birds and on the evolution of endothermy.

Representative Publications

McNab, B.K. 2003c. Ecology shapes bird bioenergetics. Nature 426: 260-261.

McNab, B.K. 2003b. Standard energetics of phyllostomid bats: the inadequacies of phylogenetic analyses. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 135A: 357-368.

McNab, B.K. 2003a. The energetics of New Zealand's ducks. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 135A: 229-247.

Bonaccorso, F.J., and B.K. McNab. 2003. Standard energetics in leaf-nosed bats (Hipposideridae): its relationship to intermittent and protracted foraging tactics in bats and birds. J. Comp. Physiol.
B. 173: 43-53.

McNab, B.K. 2002. The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics. Comstock/Cornell University Press, Ithaca.