Chapter 6 – Metabolic Expenditure

This chapter focuses on how the individual organism uses the energy gained from its diet. This includes standard and diet-dependent metabolic rates and the allocation of metabolisable energy intake between the demands of maintenance growth and reproduction. This includes standard and diet-dependent metabolic rates and the allocation of metabolisable energy intake between the demands of maintenance growth and reproduction. The integration of energy gains ( Chapter 5) and expenditures (this chapter) into growth are discussed in Chapters 7 and 8.