عنوان

Ecology of small mammals

شابک

9400957726

شابک

9400957742

شابک

9789400957725

شابک

9789400957749

شماره

b553877

عنوان اصلي

Ecology of small mammals

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by D. Michael Stoddart.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1979

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(404 pages)

متن يادداشت

1 Life-history strategies --;1.1 Introduction --;1.2 Evolution and life-history strategies --;1.3 Demographic components of life-history strategies --;1.4 Energetic components of life-history strategies --;1.5 Behavioural components of life-history strategies --;1.6 Summary --;1.7 Acknowledgements --;1.8 References --;2 Population processes in small mammals --;2.1 Introduction --;2.2 Distribution --;2.3 Abundance --;3 The stability and instability of small mammal populations --;3.1 Introduction --;3.2 The regulation of small mammal populations --;3.3 Case studies of change in small mammal populations --;3.4 Conclusions --;3.5 References to Chapters 2 and 3 --;4 Community structure and functional role of small mammals in ecosystems --;4.1 Introduction --;4.2 Characterization of 'small mammals' as a single state variable --;4.3 Characterization of 'small mammals' as different state variables --;4.4 The structure of small mammal faunas --;4.5 Some ecological characteristics of small mammals --;4.6 Evaluation of transfer functions which link the component 'small mammals' to other system variables --;4.7 Energy budgets --;4.8 The role of small mammals in ecosystems --;4.9 References --;5 Ecological importance of small mammals as reservoirs of disease --;5.1 Introduction --;5.2 Zoonoses involving small mammals --;5.3 Epidemiology of human diseases involving small mammals --;5.4 The importance of small mammals as reservoirs of disease --;5.5 The control of diseases with small mammal reservoirs --;5.6 Conclusions --;5.7 References --;6 Importance of small mammals as pests in agriculture and stored products --;6.1 Introduction --;6.2 Main types of small mammal problems --;6.3 Principal means of combating small mammal damage --;6.4 Towards integrated control programmes --;6.5 References --;7 Ecology of bats --;7.1 Habitat --;7.2 Diet --;7.3 Reproduction --;7.4 Population --;7.5 Community --;7.6 Relations --;7.7 Acknowledgements --;7.8 References --;8 Ecology of small marsupials --;8.1 Introduction --;8.2 Breeding strategies of polytocous marsupials --;8.3 Semelparity --;an unique strategy --;8.4 Contrasting strategies of arboreal leaf eating marsupials --;8.5 The ecology of invasion --;the brush possum in New Zealand --;8.4 The ecology of extinction --;small marsupials of the inland plains of Australia --;8.5 Acknowledgements --;8.6 References.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ecology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Life sciences.

موضوع مستند نشده

Zoology.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

edited by D. Michael Stoddart.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

D Michael Stoddart

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y