Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean

Name: Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean | Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics
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Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics

Jonathan Roughgarden(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 18. Mai 1995

217 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
1 The sentient forager
1.1 The optimal foraging distance
1.2 Learning to forage optimally
Rule of thumb
A computer program
Trying it out
Our lizard learns fast
1.3 Energy as a criterion
Formulation with one prey
Empirical parameters
Optimal foraging predictions
Learning to maximize yield
Insects and diets, St. Eustatius
Prey escape
Final theory with multiple prey
Optimal cutoff radii and yield
Optimal prey size-body size relation
Learning with three mobile prey types
1.4 Seasonality and growth, St. Martin
1.5 Growth of an optimal forager
1.6 Optimal life history of an optimal forager
Expanding population-r-selection
Steady state population-K-selection
1.7 Discussion
2 Invasion and coevolution
2.1 Biogeography of body size
Overview of the islands
The one-species islands
The two-species islands
Greater Antilles
2.2 Early hypotheses
The invasion scenario
The character-displacement scenario
2.3 Evidence for competition
Correlations with food supply
St. Martin and St. Eustatius
Other introductions
Competition summarized
2.4 Theory of faunal assembly
Premises
Invasion
Coevolution
Hypotheses summarized
2.5 Historical evidence
Fossil anoles
Excavations on Anguilla
Early humans
Phylogenetic analysis
2.6 Hypotheses evaluated
2.7 Biogeography of habitat use
Niche axis complementarity
Within- and between-habitat diversity
2.8 Theory of habitat use
Multiple-niche axes
Habitat segregation
2.9 Discussion
3 Origin of the Caribbean
3.1 Systematics of Anolis
Early research
Contemporary studies
3.2 Biogeographic data
Nested-subset species/area relationship
Amphibians and reptiles of Lesser Antilles
Other taxa of West Indies
3.3 Geologic data
Faults between north and south
Guadeloupe derived from Puerto Rico
Bonaire, La Blanquilla, and St. Lucia
Schematic of Lesser Antilles
3.4 Discussion
An ancient and heterogeneous Antilles
A Pacific archipelago
Could this be a big mistake?
Historical ecology of Anolis communities
4 The food tangle
4.1 Food webs
4.2 St. Martin web-first pass
Anoles and anoles
Anoles and their prey
Anoles and their predators
Anoles and their parasites
The food web as "seen" by Anoles
4.3 St. Martin web-second pass
The food web as "seen" by many
Qualitative properties
Quantitative properties
4.4 Puerto Rico
4.5 Discussion
References
Index
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