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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolff, Jerry.

Sherman, Paul W., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodents--Ecology.

Rodents.

Rodents--Evolution.

Social behavior in animals.

Animal societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-597) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611966867

9780226905389

0226905381

9781281966865

128196686X

OCLC:

646784292