Lizard Ecology : Studies of a Model Organism / Raymond B. Huey, Thomas W. Schoener, Eric R. Pianka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huey, Raymond B., editor.

Pianka, Eric R., editor.

Schoener, Thomas W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lizards--Ecology--Congresses.

Lizards.

Reptiles--Ecology--Congresses.

Reptiles.

Local Subjects:

Lizards--Ecology--Congresses.

Reptiles--Ecology--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (507 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY

1. ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ACTIVITY METABOLISM / Bennett, Albert F.

2. ECOLOGICAL ENERGETICS / Nagy, Kenneth A.

3. BIOPHYSICAL ANALYSES OF ENERGETICS, TIME-SPACE UTILIZATION, AND DISTRIBUTIONAL LIMITS / Porter, Warren P. / Tracy, G. Richard

4. LIZARD MALARIA: PARASITE-HOST ECOLOGY / Schall, Jos. J.

PART II. BEHAVORIAL II ECOLOGY

5. THE ADAPTIVE ZONE AND BEHAVIOR OF LIZARDS / Regal, Philip J.

6. A REVIEW OF LIZARD CHEMORECEPTION / Simon, Carol A.

7. FOOD AVAILABILITY AND TERRITORIAL ESTABLISHMENT OF JUVENILE SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS / Ferguson, Gary W. / Hughes, John L. / Brown, Kent L.

8. FITNESS, HOME-RANGE QUALITY, AND AGGRESSION IN UTA STANSBURIANA / Fox, Stanley F.

9. SEXUAL SELECTION, SEXUAL DIMORPHISM, AND TERRITORIALITY / Stamps, Judy A.

10. PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF PARTHENOGENESIS / Crews, David / Gustafson, Jill E. / Tokarz, Richard R.

PART III. POPULATION AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

11. LIFE-HISTORY VARIATIONS / Ballinger, Royce Ε.

12. REALIZED NICHE OVERLAP, RESOURCE ABUNDANCE, AND INTENSITY OF INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION / Dunham, Arthur E.

13. TEMPORAL SEPARATION OF ACTIVITY AND INTERSPECIFIC DIETARY OVERLAP / Huey, Raymond B. / Pianka, Eric R.

14. SYMPATRY AND SIZE SIMILARITY IN CNEMIDOPHORUS / Case, Ted J.

15. ECOMORPHS, FAUNAS, ISLAND SIZE, AND DIVERSE END POINTS IN ISLAND RADIATIONS OF ANOLIS / Williams, Ernest E.

16. COEVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE BIOGEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF ANOLIS / Roughgarden, Jonathan / Heckel, David / Fuentes, Eduardo R.

REFERENCES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. CONTRIBUTORS. INDEX

REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18338-X

OCLC:

1013962752