Vitt / Pianka Lizard Ecology

Historical and Experimental Perspectives
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6394-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments, have been the subject of reciprocal transplant experiments and of manipulations of resource availability, habitat structure, population density, and entire sections of food webs. Such experiments are rapidly rebuilding ecological theories as they apply to all organisms. As a demonstration of state-of-the-art historical and experimental research and as a call for philosophical engagement, this volume will join its predecessors--Lizard Ecology: A Symposium (Missouri, 1967) and Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism (Harvard, 1983)--in directing ecological research for years to come.

Lizard Ecology contains essays on reproductive ecology (Arthur E. Dunham, Lin Schwarzkopf, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Karen Overall, and Barry Sinervo), behavioral ecology (A. Stanley Rand, William E. Cooper, Jr., Emülia P. Martins, Craig Guyer, and C. Michael Bull), evolutionary ecology (Raymond B. Huey, Jean Clobert et al., Donald B. Miles, and Theodore Garland, Jr.), and population and community ecology (Ted Case, Robin M. Andrews and S. Joseph Wright, Craig D. James, and Jonathan B. Losos).

Originally published in 1994.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Vitt, Laurie J.

Pianka, Eric R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Introduction and Acknowledgments

1 Measuring Trade-offs: A Review of Studies of Costs of Reproduction in Lizards 7

2 Understanding Geographic Life-History Variation in Lizards 31

3 Lizard Egg Environments 51

4 Experimental Tests of Reproductive Allocation Paradigms 73

5 Prey Chemical Discrimination, Foraging Mode, and Phylogeny 95

6 Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Lizard Territoriality 117

7 Mate Limitation in Male Norops humilis 145

8 Population Dynamics and Pair Fidelity in Sleepy Lizards 159

9 Determinants of Dispersal Behavior: The Common Lizard as a Case Study 183

10 Covariation between Morphology and Locomotory Performance in Sceloporine Lizards 207

11 Phylogenetic Analyses of Lizard Endurance Capacity in Relation to Body Size and Body Temperature 237

12 Long-Term Population Fluctuations of a Tropical Lizard: A Test of Causality 267

13 Spatial and Temporal Variation in Structure of a Diverse Lizard Assemblage in Arid Australia 287

14 Historical Contingency and Lizard Community Ecology 319

References 335

Author Index 389

Species Index 397