Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats
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Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats


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Every three years a major international conference on bats draws the leading workers in the field to a carefully orchestrated presentation of the research and advances and current state of understanding of bat biology. Bats are the second most populous group of mammalia species, after rodents, and they are probably the most intensively studied group of mammals. Virtually all mammologists and a large proportion of organismic biologists are interested in bats. The earlier two edited books deriving from previous bat research conferences, as well as this one, have been rigorously edited by Tom Kunz and others, with all chapters subjected to peer review. The resulting volumes, published first by Academic Press and most recently by Smithsonian, have sold widely as the definitive synthetic treatments of current scientific understanding of bats.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Physiological EcologyDonald W. Thomas and John R. Speakman: 1.: Fritz Geiser: Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats 2.: Murray M. Humpheries, John R. Speakman, Donald W. Thomas: Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Bats 3.: Craig K.R. Willis: Daily Hetrothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts 4.: Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto and Kate E. Jones: Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats Part II. Functional Morphology 5.: Alistair R. Evans: Quantifying the Relationship Between Form and Function and the Geometry of the Wear Process in Bat Molars 6.: Dynamic Complexity of Wing Form in Bats: Implications for Flight Performance 7.: Christopher W. Nicolay and York Winter: Performance Analysis as a Tool for Understanding the Ecological Morphology of Flower-Visiting Bats 8.: William A. Schutt, Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons: Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Phylogeny 9.: Elizabeth R. Dumont: The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats Part III. Roosting Ecology and Population Biology 10.: Tamsin M. Burland, Abigail C. Entwistle, Paul A. Racey: Social Population Structure in the Brown Long Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus 11.: Gerald Kerth: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat Myotis Bechsteini 12.: Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, Roger D. Ransome, Elizabeth M. Barrett: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum 13.: Amy L. Russell, and Gary F. McCracken: Population Genetic Structuring of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis 14.: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, J. Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz 15.: Christian C. Voight, Gerald Heckel, and Otto von Helversen: Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata 16.: Colin F.J. O'Donnell and Jane A. Sedgeley: Flexibility and Specificity in Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus from New Zealand

Review :
"With 39 invited contributors, this text presents a wealth of detailed information about the interaction of bats and their environment. This is an invaluable reference work for bat biologists that calls attention to some of the modern technological breakthroughs being made in the study of bats."--Journal of Cave and Karst Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195154726
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 164 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Weight: 599 gr
  • ISBN-10: 019515472X
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 237 mm


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