Stephen M. Reilly / Lance B. McBrayer / Donald B. Miles (eds.)

Lizard Ecology

The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode
Herausgeber: Reilly, Stephen M; Miles, Donald B; McBrayer, Lance B

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The foraging mode of lizards has been a central theme in guiding research in lizard biology for three decades. Foraging mode has been shown to be a pervasive evolutionary force molding the diet, ecology, behavior, anatomy, biomechanics, life history and physiology of lizards. This volume reviews the state of our knowledge on the effects of foraging mode on these and other organismal systems to show how they have evolved, over a wide taxonomic survey of lizard groups. The reviews presented here reveal the continuous nature of foraging strategies in lizards and snakes, providing the reader with an up-to-date review of the field, and will equip researchers with new insights and future directions for the sit-and-wait vs. wide foraging paradigm. This will serve as a reference book for herpetologists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists and animal behaviorists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 181mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1225g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833585
• ISBN-10: 0521833582
• Artikelnr.: 22535226

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Reilly is professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Ohio University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, and Donald B. Miles;
Historical introduction: on widely foraging for Kalahari lizards Raymond B.
Huey and Eric R. Pianka; Part I. Organismal Patterns of Variation with
Foraging Mode: 1. Movement patterns in lizards: measurement, modality, and
behavioral correlates Gad Perry; 2. Morphology, performance and foraging
mode Donald B. Miles, Jonathan B. Losos and Duncan J. Irschick; 3.
Physiological correlates of lizard foraging mode Kevin E. Bonine; 4. Lizard
energetics and the sit-and-wait vs. wide-foraging paradigm Tracey Brown and
Kenneth A. Nagy; 5. Feeding ecology in the natural world Eric R. Pianka and
Laurie J. Vitt; 6. Why is intraspecific niche partitioning more common in
snakes than in lizards? Richard Shine and Mike Wall; 7. Herbivory and
foraging mode in lizards Anthony Herrel; 8. Lizard chemical senses,
chemosensory behavior, and foraging mode William E. Cooper, Jr.; 9.
Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of
foraging mode Lance D. McBrayer and Clay Corbin; 10. Prey capture and prey
processing behavior and the evolution of lingual and sensory
characteristics: divergences and convergences in lizard feeding biology
Stephen M. Reilly and Lance D. McBrayer; 11. The meaning and consequences
of foraging mode in snakes Steven J. Beaupre and Chad Montgomery; Part II.
Environmental Influences on Foraging Mode: 12. The foraging biology of the
Gekkota: life in the middle Aaron M. Bauer; 13. Foraging mode in the
African cordylids and plasticity of foraging behavior in Platysaurus
broadleyi Martin Whiting; 14. Interactions between habitat use, behaviour
and the trophic niche of lacertid lizards Bieke Vanhooydonck, Anthony
Herrel and Raoul Van Damme; 15. Food acquisition modes and habitat use in
lizards: questions from an integrative perspective Roger Anderson; 16. The
evolution of foraging behavior in the Galápagos marine iguana: natural and
sexual selection on body size drives ecological, morphological, and
behavioral specialization Maren N. Vitousek, Dustin R. Rubenstein and
Martin Wikelski; 17. The evolution of the foraging mode paradigm in lizard
ecology Stephen M. Reilly, Donald B. Miles and Lance D. McBrayer.