Rodent societies : an ecological & evolutionary perspective / / edited by Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 610 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rodent societies as model systems / Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman
  • Rodent evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography / Rodney L. Honeycutt, Laurence J. Frabotta and Diane L. Rowe
  • Male mating strategies in rodents / Jane Waterman
  • Reproductive strategies in female rodents / Nancy G. Solomon and Brian Keane
  • Sexual selection : using social ecology to determine fitness differences / Lara S. Carroll and Wayne K. Potts
  • A phylogenetic analysis of the breeding systems of neotomine-peromyscine rodents / Matina C. Kalcounis-Ruppell and David O. Ribble
  • Alternative reproductive tactics and strategies of tree squirrels / John L. Koprowski
  • Fast and slow life histories of rodents / F. Stephen Dobson and Madan K. Oli
  • Acceleration and delay of reproduction in rodents / Lee C. Drickamer
  • Sexual size dimorphism in rodents / Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde
  • Facultative sex ratio adjustment / Robert S. Sikes
  • The role of the stress axis in life-history adaptations / Rudy Boonstra ... [et al.]
  • Dispersal and philopatry / Scott Nunes
  • Gene dynamics and social behavior / F. Stephen Dobson
  • Social behavior and self-regulation in murid rodents / Charles J. Krebs, Xavier Lambin and Jerry O. Wolff
  • Neural regulation of social behavior in rodents / J. Thomas Curtis ... [et al.]
  • Ontogeny of adaptive behaviors / Jill M. Mateo
  • Social learning by rodents / Bennett G. Galef Jr.
  • Kin recognition in rodents : issues and evidence / Warren G. Holmes and Jill M. Mateo
  • Parental care / Betty McGuire and William E. Bemis
  • The ecology of sociality in rodents / Eileen A. Lacey and Paul W. Sherman
  • Scent marking / S. Craig Roberts
  • Nonparental infanticide / Luis A. Ebensperger and Daniel T. Blumstein
  • Social organization and monogamy in the beaver / Peter Busher
  • Evolution of pacifism and sociality in blind mole rats / Eviatar Nevo
  • Social and antipredator systems : intertwining links in multiple time frames / Donald H. Owings and Richard G. Coss
  • The evolution of alarm communication in rodents : structure, function, and the puzzle of apparently altruistic calling / Daniel T. Blumstein
  • Fear and the foraging, breeding, and sociality of rodents / Hannu Ylonen and Joel S. Brown
  • Ecology, kinship, and ground squirrel sociality : insights from comparative analyses / James F. Hare and Jan O. Murie
  • Evolution of sociality in marmots : it begins with hibernation / Kenneth B. Armitage
  • Environmental constraints and the evolution of sociality in semifossorial desert rodents / Jan A. Randall
  • Comparative social organization and life history of Rattus and Mus / Manuel Berdoy and Lee C. Drickamer
  • Social organization and resource use in capybaras and maras / David W. Macdonald ... [et al.]
  • Social structure in octodontid and ctenomyid rodents / Eileen A. Lacey and Luis A. Ebensperger
  • Socioecology of rock-dwelling rodents / Karen Nutt
  • African mole-rats : social and ecological diversity / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett
  • Alarm calling, multiple mating, and infanticide among black-tailed, Gunnison's, and Utah prairie dogs / John L. Hoogland
  • Issues in rodent conservation / William Z. Lidicker Jr.
  • Conservation of ground squirrels / Beatrice Van Horne
  • Conservation of prairie dogs / John L. Hoogland
  • Social behavior, demography, and rodent-borne pathogens / Richard S. Ostfeld and James N. Mills
  • Conclusions and future directions / Paul W. Sherman and Jerry O. Wolff.