Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- PART I: Physiological Ecology -- 1 Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats -- 2 Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Myotis -- 3 Daily Heterothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts -- 4 Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats -- PART II: Functional Morphology -- 5 Quantifying Relationships between Form and Function and the Geometry of the Wear Process in Bat Molars -- 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 -- 8 Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Evolution -- 9 The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats -- PART III: Roosting Ecology and Population Biology -- 10 Social and Population Structure in the Brown Long-Eared Bat, Plecotus auritus -- 11 Relatedness, Life History, and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat, Myotis bechsteinii -- 12 Causes and Consequences of Genetic Structure in the Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum -- 13 Population Genetic Structure of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat, Tadarida brasiliensis -- 14 Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Pteropodidae): Inferences from the Spatial Scale of Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation -- 15 Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-Winged Bat, Saccopteryx bilineata -- 16 Flexibility and Specificity in the Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi: A Common and Widespread Australian Species -- 17 Causes and Consequences of Tree-Cavity Roosting in a Temperate Bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus, from New Zealand -- Indexes.

Species Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.

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.

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