Screen LibraryLizard ecology : historical and experimental perspectives /
In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments,...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1994] ©1994 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments, have been the subject of reciprocal transplant experiments and of manipulations of resource availability, habitat structure, population density, and entire sections of food webs. Such experiments are rapidly rebuilding ecological theories as they apply to all organisms. As a demonstration of state-of-the-art historical and experimental research and as a call for philosophical engagement, this volume will join its predecessors--Lizard Ecology: A Symposium (Missouri, 1967) and Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism (Harvard, 1983)--in directing ecological research for years to come.Lizard Ecology contains essays on reproductive ecology (Arthur E. Dunham, Lin Schwarzkopf, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Karen Overall, and Barry Sinervo), behavioral ecology (A. Stanley Rand, William E. Cooper, Jr., Em lia P. Martins, Craig Guyer, and C. Michael Bull), evolutionary ecology (Raymond B. Huey, Jean Clobert et al., Donald B. Miles, and Theodore Garland, Jr.), and population and community ecology (Ted Case, Robin M. Andrews and S. Joseph Wright, Craig D. James, and Jonathan B. Losos).Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400863945 |
| Index Number: | QL666 |
| CLC: | Q959.6 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Introduction and Acknowledgments / Introduction / Chapter 1. Measuring Trade-offs: A Review of Studies of Costs of Reproduction in Lizards / Chapter 2. Understanding Geographic Life-History Variation in Lizards / Chapter 3. Lizard Egg Environments / Chapter 4. Experimental Tests of Reproductive Allocation Paradigms / Chapter 5. Prey Chemical Discrimination, Foraging Mode, and Phylogeny / Chapter 6. Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Lizard Territoriality / Chapter 7. Mate Limitation in Male / Chapter 8. Population Dynamics and Pair Fidelity in Sleepy Lizards / Chapter 9. Determinants of Dispersal Behavior: The Common Lizard as a Case Study / Chapter 10. Covariation between Morphology and Locomotory Performance in Sceloporine Lizards / Chapter 11. Phylogenetic Analyses of Lizard Endurance Capacity in Relation to Body Size and Body Temperature / Chapter 12. Long-Term Population Fluctuations of a Tropical Lizard: A Test of Causality / Chapter 13. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Structure of a Diverse Lizard Assemblage in Arid Australia / Chapter 14. Historical Contingency and Lizard Community Ecology / References -- Author Index -- Species Index. |