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xv, 610 p. : ill., maps. Rodent societies as model systems / Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman -- Rodent evolution, phylogenetics, and biogeography / Rodney L. Honeycutt, Laurence J. Frabotta and Diane L. Rowe -- Male mating strategies in rodents / Jane Waterman -- Reproductive strategies in female rodents / Nancy G. Solomon and Brian Keane -- Sexual selection : using social ecology to determine fitness differences / Lara S. Carroll and Wayne K. Potts -- A phylogenetic analysis of the breeding systems of neotomine-peromyscine rodents / Matina C. Kalcounis-R�uppell and David O. Ribble -- Alternative reproductive tactics and strategies of tree squirrels / John L. Koprowski -- Fast and slow life histories of rodents / F. Stephen Dobson and Madan K. Oli -- Acceleration and delay of reproduction in rodents / Lee C. Drickamer -- Sexual size dimorphism in rodents / Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde -- Facultative sex ratio adjustment / Robert S. Sikes -- The role of the stress axis in life-history adaptations / Rudy Boonstra ... [et al.] -- Dispersal and philopatry / Scott Nunes -- Gene dynamics and social behavior / F. Stephen Dobson -- Social behavior and self-regulation in murid rodents / Charles J. Krebs, Xavier Lambin and Jerry O. Wolff -- Neural regulation of social behavior in rodents / J. Thomas Curtis ... [et al.] -- Ontogeny of adaptive behaviors / Jill M. Mateo -- Social learning by rodents / Bennett G. Galef Jr. -- Kin recognition in rodents : issues and evidence / Warren G. Holmes and Jill M. Mateo -- Parental care / Betty McGuire and William E. Bemis -- The ecology of sociality in rodents / Eileen A. Lacey and Paul W. Sherman -- Scent marking / S. Craig Roberts -- Nonparental infanticide / Luis A. Ebensperger and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Social organization and monogamy in the beaver / Peter Busher -- Evolution of pacifism and sociality in blind mole rats / Eviatar Nevo -- Social and antipredator systems : intertwining links in multiple time frames / Donald H. Owings and Richard G. Coss -- The evolution of alarm communication in rodents : structure, function, and the puzzle of apparently altruistic calling / Daniel T. Blumstein -- Fear and the foraging, breeding, and sociality of rodents / Hannu Yl�onen and Joel S. Brown -- Ecology, kinship, and ground squirrel sociality : insights from comparative analyses / James F. Hare and Jan O. Murie -- Evolution of sociality in marmots : it begins with hibernation / Kenneth B. Armitage -- Environmental constraints and the evolution of sociality in semifossorial desert rodents / Jan A. Randall -- Comparative social organization and life history of Rattus and Mus / Manuel Berdoy and Lee C. Drickamer -- Social organization and resource use in capybaras and maras / David W. Macdonald ... [et al.] -- Social structure in octodontid and ctenomyid rodents / Eileen A. Lacey and Luis A. Ebensperger -- Socioecology of rock-dwelling rodents / Karen Nutt -- African mole-rats : social and ecological diversity / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett -- Alarm calling, multiple mating, and infanticide among black-tailed, Gunnison's, and Utah prairie dogs / John L. Hoogland -- Issues in rodent conservation / William Z. Lidicker Jr. -- Conservation of ground squirrels / Beatrice Van Horne -- Conservation of prairie dogs / John L. Hoogland -- Social behavior, demography, and rodent-borne pathogens / Richard S. Ostfeld and James N. Mills -- Conclusions and future directions / Paul W. Sherman and Jerry O. Wolff. edited by Jerry O. Wolff and Paul W. Sherman. Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-597) and indexes. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Rodents Ecology Rodents Evolution Social behavior in animals Animal societies QL737.R6 R623 2007eb 599.35/156 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266008 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266008 CaPaEBR 060630 ebr10266008