Rodent societies : an ecological & evolutionary perspective /
Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summar...
| Други автори: | Wolff, Jerry., Sherman, Paul W., 1949- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Rodent societies. |
Съдържание:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.
- Rodent societies as model systems /
- Jerry O. Wolff
- and
- Paul W. Sherman
- 2.
- Rodent evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography /
- Rodney L. Honeycutt,
- Laurence J. Frabotta
- and
- Diane L. Rowe
- Sexual behavior
- 3.
- Male mating strategies in rodents /
- Jane Waterman
- 4.
- Reproductive strategies in female rodents /
- Nancy G. Solomon
- and
- Brian Keane
- 5.
- Sexual selection : using social ecology to determine fitness differences /
- Lara S. Carroll
- and
- Wayne K. Potts
- 6.
- A phylogenetic analysis of the breeding systems of neotomine-peromyscine rodents /
- Matina C. Kalcounis-Ruppell
- and
- David O. Ribble
- 7.
- Alternative reproductive tactics and strategies of tree squirrels /
- John L. Koprowski.
- Life histories and behavior
- 8.
- Fast and slow life histories of rodents /
- F. Stephen Dobson
- and
- Madan K. Oli
- 9.
- Acceleration and delay of reproduction in rodents /
- Lee C. Drickamer
- 10.
- Sexual size dimorphism in rodents /
- Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde
- 11.
- Facultative sex ratio adjustment /
- Robert S. Sikes
- 12.
- The role of the stress axis in life-history adaptations /
- Rudy Boonstra,
- J.M. Barker,
- J. Castillo,
- and
- Q.E. Fletcher
- 13.
- Dispersal and philopatry /
- Scott Nunes
- 14.
- Gene dynamics and social behavior /
- F. Stephen Dobson
- 15.
- Social behavior and self-regulation in murid rodents /
- Charles J. Krebs,
- Xavier Lambin
- and
- Jerry O. Wolff
- Behavioral development
- 16.
- Neural regulation of social behavior in rodents /
- J. Thomas Curtis,
- Yan Liu,
- Brandon J. Aragona,
- and
- Zuoxin Wang
- 17.
- Ontogeny of adaptive behaviors /
- Jill M. Mateo
- 18.
- Social learning by rodents /
- Bennett G. Galef Jr.
- 19.
- Kin recognition in rodents : issues and evidence /
- Warren G. Holmes
- and
- Jill M. Mateo.
- Social behavior
- 20.
- Parental care /
- Betty McGuire
- and
- William E. Bemis
- 21.
- The ecology of sociality in rodents /
- Eileen A. Lacey
- and
- Paul W. Sherman
- 22.
- Scent marking /
- S. Craig Roberts
- 23.
- Nonparental infanticide /
- Luis A. Ebensperger
- and
- Daniel T. Blumstein
- 24.
- Social organization and monogamy in the beaver /
- Peter Busher
- 25.
- Evolution of pacifism and sociality in blind mole rats /
- Eviatar Nevo
- Antipredator behavior
- 26.
- Social and antipredator systems : intertwining links in multiple time frames /
- Donald H. Owings
- and
- Richard G. Coss
- 27.
- The evolution of alarm communication in rodents : structure, function, and the puzzle of apparently altruistic calling /
- Daniel T. Blumstein
- 28.
- Fear and the foraging, breeding, and sociality of rodents /
- Hannu Ylonen
- and
- Joel S. Brown.
- Comparative socioecology
- 29.
- Ecology, kinship, and ground squirrel sociality : insights from comparative analyses /
- James F. Hare
- and
- Jan O. Murie
- 30.
- Evolution of sociality in marmots : it begins with hibernation /
- Kenneth B. Armitage
- 31.
- Environmental constraints and the evolution of sociality in semifossorial desert rodents /
- Jan A. Randall
- 32.
- Comparative social organization and life history of Rattus and Mus /
- Manuel Berdoy
- and
- Lee C. Drickamer
- 33.
- Social organization and resource use in capybaras and maras /
- David W. Macdonald,
- Emilio A. Herrera,
- Andrew B. Taber,
- and
- Jose Roberto Moreira
- 34.
- Social structure in octodontid and ctenomyid rodents /
- Eileen A. Lacey
- and
- Luis A. Ebensperger
- 35.
- Socioecology of rock-dwelling rodents /
- Karen Nutt.
- 36.
- African mole-rats : social and ecological diversity /
- Chris G. Faulkes
- and
- Nigel C. Bennett
- 37.
- Alarm calling, multiple mating, and infanticide among black-tailed, Gunnison's, and Utah prairie dogs /
- John L. Hoogland
- Conservation and disease
- 38.
- Issues in rodent conservation /
- William Z. Lidicker Jr.
- 39.
- Conservation of ground squirrels /
- Beatrice Van Horne
- 40.
- Conservation of prairie dogs /
- John L. Hoogland
- 41.
- Social behavior, demography, and rodent-borne pathogens /
- Richard S. Ostfeld
- and
- James N. Mills
- Conclusions
- 42.
- Conclusions and future directions /
- Paul W. Sherman
- and
- Jerry O. Wolff
- References
- Subject index
- Species index.