Rodent Societies : An Ecological and 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aragona, Brandon J. (Contribuidor), Armitage, Kenneth B. (Contribuidor), Barker, J. M. (Contribuidor), Bemis, William E. (Contribuidor), Bennett, Nigel C. (Contribuidor), Berdoy, Manuel (Contribuidor), Blumstein, Daniel T. (Contribuidor), Boonstra, Rudy (Contribuidor), Brown, Joel S. (Contribuidor), Busher, Peter (Contribuidor), Carroll, Lara S. (Contribuidor), Castillo, J. (Contribuidor), Coss, Richard G. (Contribuidor), Curtis, J. Thomas (Contribuidor), Dobson, F. Stephen (Contribuidor), Drickamer, Lee C. (Contribuidor), Ebensperger, Luis A. (Contribuidor), Faulkes, Chris G. (Contribuidor), Fletcher, Q. E. (Contribuidor), Frabotta, Laurence J. (Contribuidor), Galef, Bennett G. (Contribuidor), Hare, James F. (Contribuidor), Herrera, Emilio A. (Contribuidor), Holmes, Warren G. (Contribuidor), Honeycutt, Rodney L. (Contribuidor), Hoogland, John L. (Contribuidor), Horne, Beatrice Van (Contribuidor), Kalcounis-Rüppell, Matina C. (Contribuidor), Keane, Brian (Contribuidor), Koprowski, John L. (Contribuidor), Krebs, Charles J. (Contribuidor), Lacey, Eileen A. (Contribuidor), Lambin, Xavier (Contribuidor), Lidicker, William Z. (Contribuidor), Liu, Yan (Contribuidor), Macdonald, David W. (Contribuidor), Mateo, Jill M. (Contribuidor), McGuire, Betty (Contribuidor), Mills, James N. (Contribuidor), Moreira, José Roberto (Contribuidor), Murie, Jan O. (Contribuidor), Nevo, Eviatar (Contribuidor), Nunes, Scott (Contribuidor), Nutt, Karen J. (Contribuidor), Oli, Madan K. (Contribuidor), Ostfeld, Richard S. (Contribuidor), Owings, Donald H. (Contribuidor), Potts, Wayne K. (Contribuidor), Randall, Jan A. (Contribuidor), Ribble, David O. (Contribuidor), Roberts, S. Craig (Contribuidor), Rowe, Diane L. (Contribuidor), Schulte-Hostedde, Albrecht I. (Contribuidor), Sherman, Paul W. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Sikes, Robert S. (Contribuidor), Solomon, Nancy G. (Contribuidor), Taber, Andrew B. (Contribuidor), Wang, Zuoxin (Contribuidor), Waterman, Jane (Contribuidor), Wolff, Jerry O. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Ylönen, Hannu (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
Animal societies.
Rodents.
Science.
Social behavior in animals.
Zoology.
SCIENCE / General.
rodents, social behavior, ecology, conservation, population management, environment, nonfiction, science, nature, biogeography, reproduction, diseases, socioecology, antipredator strategies, predation, cooperation, communication, cognition, behavioral development, neuroendocrine mechanisms, genetics, biology, evolution, mating, sexual selection, breeding, tree squirrels, stress, dimorphism, sex ratio, kin recognition, adaptation, foraging, blind mole rats, beaver, prairie dogs, infanticide, capybaras.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Rodent Societies as Model Systems
  • Chapter 2. Rodent Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Chapter 3. Male Mating Strategies in Rodents
  • Chapter 4. Reproductive Strategies in Female Rodents
  • Chapter 5. Sexual Selection: Using Social Ecology to Determine Fitness Differences
  • Chapter 6. A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Breeding Systems of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents
  • Chapter 7. Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Strategies of Tree Squirrels
  • Life Histories & Behavior
  • Chapter 8. Fast and Slow Life Histories of Rodents
  • Chapter 9. Acceleration and Delay of Reproduction in Rodents
  • Chapter 10. Sexual Size Dimorphism in Rodents
  • Chapter 11. Facultative Sex Ratio Adjustment
  • Chapter 12 The Role of the Stress Axis in Life-History Adaptations
  • Chapter 13. Dispersal and Philopatry
  • Chapter 14. Gene Dynamics and Social Behavior
  • Chapter 15. Social Behavior and Self-Regulation in Murid Rodents
  • Behavioral Development
  • Chapter 16. Neural Regulation of Social Behavior in Rodents
  • Chapter 17. Ontogeny of Adaptive Behaviors
  • Chapter 18. Social Learning by Rodents
  • Chapter 19. Kin Recognition in Rodents: Issues and Evidence
  • Social Behavior
  • Chapter 20. Parental Care
  • Chapter 21. The Ecology of Sociality in Rodents
  • Chapter 22. Scent Marking
  • Chapter 23. Nonparental Infanticide
  • Chapter 24. Social Organization and Monogamy in the Beaver
  • Chapter 25. Evolution of Pacifism and Sociality in Blind Mole-Rats
  • Antipredator Behavior
  • Chapter 26. Social and Antipredator Systems: Intertwining Links in Multiple Time Frames
  • Chapter 27. The Evolution of Alarm Communication in Rodents: Structure, Function, and the Puzzle of Apparently Altruistic Calling
  • Chapter 28. Fear and the Foraging, Breeding, and Sociality of Rodents
  • Comparative Socioecology
  • Chapter 29. Ecology, Kinship, and Ground Squirrel Sociality: Insights from Comparative Analyses
  • Chapter 30. Evolution of Sociality in Marmots: It Begins with Hibernation
  • Chapter 31. Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of Sociality in Semifossorial Desert Rodents
  • Chapter 32. Comparative Social Organization and Life History of Rattus and Mus
  • Chapter 33. Social Organization and Resource Use in Capybaras and Maras
  • Chapter 34. Social Structure in Octodontid and Ctenomyid Rodents
  • Chapter 35. Socioecology of Rock-Dwelling Rodents
  • Chapter 36. African Mole-Rats: Social and Ecological Diversity
  • Chapter 37. Alarm Calling, Multiple Mating, and Infanticide among Black-Tailed, Gunnison's, and Utah Prairie Dogs
  • Conservation & Disease
  • Chapter 38. Issues in Rodent Conservation
  • Chapter 39. Conservation of Ground Squirrels
  • Chapter 40. Conservation of Prairie Dogs
  • Chapter 41. Social Behavior, Demography, and Rodent-Borne Pathogens
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 42. Conclusions and Future Directions
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Species Index

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