Book Description
A comprehensive and invaluable resource, Methods for Ecological Research on Terrestrial Small Mammals is a must-have for any ecologist working on small mammals.
Author : Robert McCleery
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421442116
A comprehensive and invaluable resource, Methods for Ecological Research on Terrestrial Small Mammals is a must-have for any ecologist working on small mammals.
Author : F. B. Golley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1975-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521206014
This volume, first published in 1975, looks at small mammal populations with emphasis being placed on their ecology and energy dynamics. It discusses the most productive research techniques and research objectives. The second part of the book deals with the roles of small mammals in ecosystems.
Author : S. Halle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 364218264X
Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high. Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis.
Author : S. Halle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2000-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540592440
Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high. Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis.
Author : D.M. Stoddart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400957726
From their largely descriptive beginnings about a half century ago, studies on the ecology of small mammals have mushroomed in number, scope, content and complexity. Yet strangely, or perhaps not so strangely if one considers the extent and complexity of ecological interactions, the main problems for which the early workers sought answers still defy complete analysis, and basic hypotheses remain untested if not even untestable. The same holds true for so many branches of animal ecology that it seems to be the complexity of the concepts that frustrates efforts rather than the subject species. Like all branches of science, small mammal ecology has been subject to a series of fashionable approaches, one following another as tech nology penetrates previously impregnable regions. Doubtless the future development of our science will be punctuated by wave upon wave of new endeavour in whole fields that are perhaps even yet unidentified. Answers to the complex questions which ecologists ask do not come easily. Increasingly though, they arise in direct proportion to the efforts expended upon their elucidation. Many studies have achieved such a high level of elegance, in terms of manpower and apparatus, that there is a feeling that questions asked when such resources are unavailable are not worth asking. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many a complex model has failed fully to explain the phenomenon for which it was construc ted because of a lack of basic field data on the species' natural h~story.
Author : Joseph F. Merritt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801879507
Animals of this size face different physiological and ecological challenges than larger mammals.
Author : Gary W. Barrett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387216227
A summary of much of the experimental work on the spatial ecology of small mammals. This field has entered an exciting stage with such new techniques as GIS and systems modeling becoming available. Leading contributors describe and analyze the most well-known case studies and provide new insights into how landscape patterns and processes have had an impact on small mammals and how small mammals have, in turn, affected landscape structure and composition.
Author : Ronald Heyer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1588344371
Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians, with information on analyzing and using data that will interest biologists in general. In this manual, nearly fifty herpetologists recommend ten standard sampling procedures for measuring and monitoring amphibian and many other populations. The contributors discuss each procedure, along with the circumstances for its appropriate use. In addition, they provide a detailed protocol for each procedure's implementation, a list of necessary equipment and personnel, and suggestions for analyzing the data. The data obtained using these standard methods are comparable across sites and through time and, as a result, are extremely useful for making decisions about habitat protection, sustained use, and restoration—decisions that are particularly relevant for threatened amphibian populations.
Author : Michael J. Delany
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : M. J. Delany
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Animal ecology
ISBN : 9780713124743