In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments, have been the subject of reciprocal transplant experiments and of manipulations of resource availability, habitat structure, population density, and entire sections of food webs. Such experiments are rapidly rebuilding ecological theories as they apply to all organisms. As a demonstration of state-of-the-art historical and experimental research and as a call for philosophical engagement, this volume will join its predecessors--Lizard Ecology: A Symposium (Missouri, 1967) and Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism (Harvard, 1983)--in directing ecological research for years to come.Lizard Ecology contains essays on reproductive ecology (Arthur E. Dunham, Lin Schwarzkopf, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Karen Overall, and Barry Sinervo), behavioral ecology (A. Stanley Rand, William E. Cooper, Jr., Em!lia P. Martins, Craig Guyer, and C. Michael Bull), evolutionary ecology (Raymond B. Huey, Jean Clobert et al., Donald B. Miles, and Theodore Garland, Jr.), and population and community ecology (Ted Case, Robin M. Andrews and S. Joseph Wright, Craig D. James, and Jonathan B. Losos).
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The topics, [in this volume] represent an impressive diversity of approaches, ranging from detailed life-history studies of single species and in-depth analyses of lizard communities to broad-based comparisons of multiple traits across all groups of lizards. . . . [Lizard Ecology] not only provides a context in which to view these individual studies but opens a unique window on lizard ecology past, present, and future.
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prey chemical discrimination, home range defense, direct fecundity costs, squamate taxa, prey odor discrimination, optimum egg size, watering during the dry season, iguanian families, invariant clutch size, entire study site, total clutch mass, ambush foragers, phrynosomatid lizards, sceloporine lizards, scleroglossan lizards, lizard taxa, egg survivorship, lizard assemblages, lingual morphology, lizard ecology, watered plots, indirect displays, allometric engineering, sleepy lizards, chemosensory searching Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, New Jersey, Grapevine Hills, South Carolina, Laurie Vitt, Art Dunham, Department of Biology, Ray Huey, Ecole Normale, Eric Pianka, Karen Overall, Paris Cedex, Puerto Rico, Ted Garland, University of Pennsylvania, Barro Colorado Island, Department of Zoology, Tom Schoener, Don Tinkle, Dry Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet, Justin Congdon, Peter Niewiarowski, Alice Springs, Functions of Monogamy, Joyce Tsuji New!
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prey chemical discrimination, home range defense, direct fecundity costs, squamate taxa, prey odor discrimination, optimum egg size, watering during the dry season, iguanian families, invariant clutch size, entire study site, total clutch mass, ambush foragers, phrynosomatid lizards, sceloporine lizards, scleroglossan lizards, lizard taxa, egg survivorship, lizard assemblages, lingual morphology, lizard ecology, watered plots, indirect displays, allometric engineering, sleepy lizards, chemosensory searching Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, New Jersey, Grapevine Hills, South Carolina, Laurie Vitt, Art Dunham, Department of Biology, Ray Huey, Ecole Normale, Eric Pianka, Karen Overall, Paris Cedex, Puerto Rico, Ted Garland, University of Pennsylvania, Barro Colorado Island, Department of Zoology, Tom Schoener, Don Tinkle, Dry Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet, Justin Congdon, Peter Niewiarowski, Alice Springs, Functions of Monogamy, Joyce Tsuji New!
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- Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 15: Development B by Carl Gans on 9 pages
- Community Ecology by Ted J. Case in Front Matter, and page 4
- Evolutionary Ecology (6th Edition) by Eric R. Pianka on page 4, and page 175
- Evolutionary Innovations by Matthew H. Nitecki in Back Matter
- Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism by Raymond B. Huey on page 3
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- Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles by Clifford Warwick on page 30, and page 163
- Vertebrate Biomechanics and Evolution (Society for Experimental Biology) by VL Bels on page 279, and page 281
- Parasitic Protozoa, Ten-Volume Set: Parasitic Protozoa, Volume 7, Second Edition by Julius P. Kreier on page 68, and page 71
- Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives by William J. Resetarits Jr. on page 48
- Ecological Experiments: Purpose, Design and Execution (Cambridge Studies in Ecology) by Nelson G. Hairston in Back Matter
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