Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats

by Akbar Zubaid, Thomas H. Kunz, Gary F. McCracken, Thomas Kunz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195154726
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/05/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Boston University

Universiti Kebangsaan

University of Tennessee

Table of Contents

Part I. Physiological Ecology Donald W. Thomas and John R. Speakman
1. Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats, Fritz Geiser
2. Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Bats, Murray M. Humpheries, John R. Speakman, Donald W. Thomas
3. Daily Hetrothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts, Craig K.R. Willis
4. Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto and Kate E. Jones
Part II. Functional Morphology
5. Quantifying the Relationship Between Form and Function and the Geometry of the Wear Process in Bat Molars, Alistair R. Evans
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 Bats, Christopher W. Nicolay and York Winter
8. Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Phylogeny, William A. Schutt, Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons
9. The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats, Elizabeth R. Dumont
Part III. Roosting Ecology and Population Biology
10. Social Population Structure in the Brown Long Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus, Tamsin M. Burland, Abigail C. Entwistle, Paul A. Racey
11. Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat Myotis Bechsteini, Gerald Kerth
12. Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, Roger D. Ransome, Elizabeth M. Barrett
13. Population Genetic Structuring of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis, Amy L. Russell, and Gary F. McCracken
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. Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata, Christian C. Voight, Gerald Heckel, and Otto von Helversen
16. Flexibility and Specificity in Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus from New Zealand, Colin F.J. O'Donnell and Jane A. Sedgeley

Editorial Reviews

"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 Studies

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