| Title |
Rodent societies : an ecological & evolutionary perspective / edited by Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman. |
| OCLC |
ocn309319793 |
| ISBN |
9780226905389 (electronic bk.) |
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0226905381 (electronic bk.) |
| Publisher |
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Description |
xv, 610 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Rodents -- Ecology.
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Rodents -- Evolution.
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Social behavior in animals.
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Animal societies.
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Other
Subject heading/s |
Rongeurs -- Écologie.
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Rongeurs -- Évolution.
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Comportement social chez les animaux.
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Sociétés animales.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [491]-597) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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-Rüppell and David O. Ribble -- 7. Alternative reproductive tactics and strategies of tree squirrels / John L. Koprowski -- |
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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 -- |
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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 Ylönen and Joel S. Brown -- |
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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 José 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 -- |
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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. |
| Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. |
| Restrictions |
Single user license access. |
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