Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats
Published on 26. January 2006
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-19-515472-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 current state of understanding of bat biology. Bats are the second most populous group of mammalia species, after rodents, and they are probably the most intensively studied group of mammals. Virtually all mammologists and a large proportion of organismic biologists are interested in bats. The earlier two edited books deriving from previous bat research conferences, as well as this one, have been rigorously edited by Tom Kunz and others, with all chapters subjected to peer review. The resulting volumes, published first by Academic Press and most recently by Smithsonian, have sold widely as the definitive synthetic treatments of current scientific understanding of bats.
Reviews / Votes
"With 39 invited contributors, this text presents a wealth of detailed information about the interaction of bats and their environment. This is an invaluable reference work for bat biologists that calls attention to some of the modern technological breakthroughs being made in the study of bats."--Journal of Cave and Karst StudiesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13 halftones, numerous tables and line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 164 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-515472-6 (9780195154726)
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Additional editions
Akbar Zubaid | Gary F. McCracken | Thomas Kunz
Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats
E-Book
01/2006
1st Edition
OUP eBook
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Persons
Edited by Thomas Kunz, Professor of Biology, Boston University, Akbar Zubaid, Professor of Biological Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, and Gary F. McCracken, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
Content
Part I. Physiological EcologyDonald W. Thomas and John R. Speakman:
1.: Fritz Geiser: Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats
2.: Murray M. Humpheries, John R. Speakman, Donald W. Thomas: Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Bats
3.: Craig K.R. Willis: Daily Hetrothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts
4.: Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto and Kate E. Jones: Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats
Part II. Functional Morphology
5.: Alistair R. Evans: Quantifying the Relationship 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.: Christopher W. Nicolay and York Winter: Performance Analysis as a Tool for Understanding the Ecological Morphology of Flower-Visiting Bats
8.: William A. Schutt, Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons: Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Phylogeny
9.: Elizabeth R. Dumont: The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats
Part III. Roosting Ecology and Population Biology
10.: Tamsin M. Burland, Abigail C. Entwistle, Paul A. Racey: Social Population Structure in the Brown Long Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus
11.: Gerald Kerth: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat Myotis Bechsteini
12.: Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, Roger D. Ransome, Elizabeth M. Barrett: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
13.: Amy L. Russell, and Gary F. McCracken: Population Genetic Structuring of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis
14.: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, J. Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz
15.: Christian C. Voight, Gerald Heckel, and Otto von Helversen: Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata
16.: Colin F.J. O'Donnell and Jane A. Sedgeley: Flexibility and Specificity in Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus from New Zealand
1.: Fritz Geiser: Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats
2.: Murray M. Humpheries, John R. Speakman, Donald W. Thomas: Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Bats
3.: Craig K.R. Willis: Daily Hetrothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts
4.: Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto and Kate E. Jones: Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats
Part II. Functional Morphology
5.: Alistair R. Evans: Quantifying the Relationship 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.: Christopher W. Nicolay and York Winter: Performance Analysis as a Tool for Understanding the Ecological Morphology of Flower-Visiting Bats
8.: William A. Schutt, Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons: Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Phylogeny
9.: Elizabeth R. Dumont: The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats
Part III. Roosting Ecology and Population Biology
10.: Tamsin M. Burland, Abigail C. Entwistle, Paul A. Racey: Social Population Structure in the Brown Long Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus
11.: Gerald Kerth: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat Myotis Bechsteini
12.: Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, Roger D. Ransome, Elizabeth M. Barrett: Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
13.: Amy L. Russell, and Gary F. McCracken: Population Genetic Structuring of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis
14.: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, J. Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz
15.: Christian C. Voight, Gerald Heckel, and Otto von Helversen: Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata
16.: Colin F.J. O'Donnell and Jane A. Sedgeley: Flexibility and Specificity in Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus from New Zealand