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Nature 418, 727 (15 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/418727a

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Eco-physiology comes of age

John Speakman1

Physiological ecology has been an emerging subject for the past 50 years, since its gestation in the seminal work of physiologists such as Knut Schmidt Nielsen, Per Scholander and Laurence Irving, who first looked at the physiology of animals in the wild. Brian McNab published his first paper in this area in 1963, and so has been on the scene since the field was in its infancy.