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Preface A guide to the book 1. Putting two and two together 2. Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking 3. Aspects of energy metabolism 4. Getting things in proportion 5. Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios 6. Building a trophic pyramid 7. Sodium in animals and plants 8. Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide 9. A geometric series 10. Introduction to logarithms 11. Bringing logarithms to life 12. Exponential relationships 13. Aspects of allometry 14. More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature 15. How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding 16. The characterization of trees and other branching systems 17. Epilogue References Notes Index.