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

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 599.4/17
• Soggetto topico: Bats - Ecology
• Persona (resp. second.): KunzThomas H.; McCrackenGary F <1948-> (Gary Frederick); ZubaidAkbar
• Note generali: "This volume is the outgrowth of three symposia that were convened at the 12th International Bat Research Conference, hosted by the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia from August 5 to 9, 2001, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia"--Preface.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Every three years a major international conference on bats draws the leading workers in the field to a carefully orchestrated presentation of the research and advances and the state of understanding of bat biology. Virtually all mammologists and a large proportion of organismic biologists are interested in bats.
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional and evolutionary ecology of bats
• ISBN: 0-19-770114-0; 1-280-50222-3; 1-4237-6146-4; 0-19-803524-1; 1-4337-0061-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822712703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II