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Brian K McNab

KEmeritus Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1962

  • 428 Bartram Hall
  • (352) 392-1178
  • bkm@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

  • Ochoa-Acuna, H.G., McNab, B.K., and E.H. Miller. 2009. Seasonal energetics of northern phocid seals. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. (in press)
  • McNab, B.K. 2009. Ecological factors affect the level and scaling of avian BMR. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 152: 22-45.
  • McNab, B.K. 2008b. An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 151: 5-28.
  • McNab, B.K. 2008a. Physiological Ecology. Pages 2744-2751, In: Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, B.V.
  • Seavy, N. E., and B.K.McNab. 2007. Energetics of East African pycnonotids. Biotropica 39: 114-119.
  • McNab, B.K. 2006. The evolution of energetics in eutherian “insectivores”: an alternate approach. Acta Theriol. 51: 113-128.
  • McNab, B.K., and H.I. Ellis. 2006. Flightless rails endemic to islands have lower energy expenditures and clutch sizes than flighted rails on islands and continents. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 145: 295-311.
  • McNab, B.K. 2005c. Ecological factors influence energetics in the Order Carnivora. Acta Zool. Sinica 51: 535-545.
  • McNab, B.K. 2005b. Food habits and the evolution of energetics in birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae). J. Comp. Physiol. B 175: 117-132.
  • McNab, B.K. 2005a. Uniformity in the basal metabolic rate in marsupials: its causes and consequences. Revista Chil.Hist. Nat. 78: 183-198.
  • 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.