Functional and evolutionary ecology of bats / edited by Akbar Zubaid, Gary F. McCracken, and Thomas H. Kunz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zubaid Akbar, editor.

McCracken, Gary F. (Gary Frederick), 1948- editor.

Kunz, Thomas H., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bats--Ecology--Congresses.

Bats.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a definitive synthetic treatment of the current scientific understanding of bats. Bats are the second most populous group of mammal species, after rodents, and they are probably the most intensively studied group of animals.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; PART I: Physiological Ecology; 1 Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats; 2 Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Myotis; 3 Daily Heterothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts; 4 Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats; 5 Quantifying Relationships 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 Performance Analysis as a Tool for Understanding the Ecological Morphology of Flower-Visiting Bats8 Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Evolution; 9 The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats; PART III: Roosting Ecology and Population Biology; 10 Social and Population Structure in the Brown Long-Eared Bat, Plecotus auritus; 11 Relatedness, Life History, and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat, Myotis bechsteinii; 12 Causes and Consequences of Genetic Structure in the Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

13 Population Genetic Structure of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat, Tadarida brasiliensis14 Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Pteropodidae): Inferences from the Spatial Scale of Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation; 15 Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-Winged Bat, Saccopteryx bilineata; 16 Flexibility and Specificity in the Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi: A Common and Widespread Australian Species

17 Causes and Consequences of Tree-Cavity Roosting in a Temperate Bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus, from New ZealandIndexes; Species Index; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770114-0

1-280-50222-3

1-4237-6146-4

0-19-803524-1

1-4337-0061-1

OCLC:

314202792