Author: Elizabeth L. StallmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Social Behavior, Foraging, and Reproduction in Female Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris).
Author: Elizabeth L. StallmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Marmot Biology
Author: Kenneth B. ArmitagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107053943
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
"Marmot Biology Sociality, Individual Fitness and Population Dynamics"--
The Ecology of Social Behavior
Author: C. N. SlobodchikoffPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483264998
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Ecology of Social Behavior explores the relationships between ecology and the origins and maintenance of social behavior. The chapters in this book suggest that a consideration of ecological factors is necessary to any paradigm that tries to explain the origins and maintenance of social behavior. Most also suggest that there are some trade-offs between ecology, genetics, and phylogeny in the development and persistence of specific social systems. The book is organized into five parts. Part I provides an overview of the main themes covered in the present volume. Part II contains papers on ecological interactions, including variation in group sizes of forest primates, group foraging, and the origin of monogamy in mammals and fishes. Part III examines the ecology of social mammals. These include the ecological conditions for philopatry and the relationship of habitat variability to sociality in yellow-bellied marmots. Part IV focuses on the ecology of social birds while Part V deals with the ecology of social arthropods.
Spatial and Behavioral Foraging Patterns and Diet Selectivity in the Social Yellow Bellied Marmot
Author: Barbara Ann FrasePublisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Wild Mammals of North America
Author: George A. FeldhamerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874161
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
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Marmots
Author: David P. BarashPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804715348
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In this book, based on over twenty years of study around the world, the author summarizes and synthesizes virtually everything that is known of the social behaviour and ecology of marmots. The organizing principle of the author's approach is evolution by natural selection - and thus, the degree to which the social behaviour of free-living animals can be interpreted as representing adaptations to particular environmental conditions. This book is essentially a single, widespread genus (genus Marmota comprising fourteen species found in North America and Eurasia. As such, it represents a productive union of theoretical insights from Darwinism and modern sociobiology, accompanied by a wealth of empirical data. Marmots are notable in that they constitute a relatively homogeneous group, made up of numerous species which greatly resemble each other. However, they occupy widely varying habitats - from temperate, lowland elevations to (more often) alpine meadows - and theory would predict behavioural adaptations to match their habitats.
Rodent Societies
Author: Jerry O. WolffPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226905381
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
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.
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