The ecological literature on marsupials is dominated by descriptive natural history, and there has hitherto been little attempt at either synthesis or evolutionary interpretation. This book attempts to provide such a synthesis, by drawing on both the descriptive data base and predictions from the burgeoning literature on behavioural and evolutionary ecology. It documents the excellent potential the study of marsupials provides for resolution of theoretical questions of general importance in biology. It does this in three ways. First, by describing the impressive diversity of marsupial life history strategies and trophic roles. Second, by careful comparison with the eutherians, the scope of the marsupial radiation is used to analyse the role of developmental constraints and adaptive radiation in determining the diversification of higher taxa. Lastly, it is suggested that the accessibility of marsupial young during their obligatory pouch life facilitates measurement, manipulation and assessment of kinship not possible in other mammalian groups. Further special topics include marsupial/plant mutualism, marsupial competition and the empirical uses of mammals with simple life histories.
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Documents the impressive diversity of marsupial life history strategies and trophic roles and also reveals the enormous potential that a study of marsupials offers for resolving theoretical questions in such branches of biological science as evolutionary ecology.
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Evolutionary ecology is concerned with the ways in which organisms living in different environments enhance their survival and reproduction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quiescent blastocyst, body length distribution, maternal range, teat number, other didelphids, pouch life, diprotodont marsupials, inverted filled triangles, sap sites, marsupial radiation, polyprotodont marsupials, mammal pollination, fungal sporocarps, postpartum oestrus, niche parameters, maternal body mass, marsupial reproduction, carnivorous marsupials, didelphid marsupials, embryonic diapause, dasyurid marsupials, browsing herbivores, male dispersal, other marsupials, corticosteroid concentration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boola Boola, French Guyana, New South Wales, After Cockburn, Otway Ranges, New Zealand, Van Dyck, After Charles-Dominique, May June July Aug, South America, Competitive Exclusion Principle, Maynard Smith, The Gompertz, After Fox, July Jan, Land Conservation Council, Northern Territory, Tasmanian Devil New!
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Evolutionary ecology is concerned with the ways in which organisms living in different environments enhance their survival and reproduction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quiescent blastocyst, body length distribution, maternal range, teat number, other didelphids, pouch life, diprotodont marsupials, inverted filled triangles, sap sites, marsupial radiation, polyprotodont marsupials, mammal pollination, fungal sporocarps, postpartum oestrus, niche parameters, maternal body mass, marsupial reproduction, carnivorous marsupials, didelphid marsupials, embryonic diapause, dasyurid marsupials, browsing herbivores, male dispersal, other marsupials, corticosteroid concentration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boola Boola, French Guyana, New South Wales, After Cockburn, Otway Ranges, New Zealand, Van Dyck, After Charles-Dominique, May June July Aug, South America, Competitive Exclusion Principle, Maynard Smith, The Gompertz, After Fox, July Jan, Land Conservation Council, Northern Territory, Tasmanian Devil New!
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- The Biology of Marsupials by Bernard Stonehouse on 6 pages
- Ecology of Arboreal Folivores by G.Gene Montgomery on 5 pages
- Evolution and Development (Life Sciences Research Report 22) by John Tyler Bonner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective by Michael E. Soule in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Top 10 Myths About Evolution by Cameron Smith on page 118, and Back Matter
- Perspectives in Ethology, Vol. 8: Whither Ethology? by P.P.G Bateson on page 81
- Hormones and Aging by Paola S. Timiras on page 261
- Vertebrate Ecophysiology: An Introduction to its Principles and Applications by Don Bradshaw in Back Matter
- The Digestive System in Mammals: Food Form and Function by D. J. Chivers on page 284
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