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Fifth edition

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

xii, 725 stran : ilustrace (převážně barevné), mapy ; 29 cm

ISBN 978-1-4214-3652-4 (vázáno)

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PART 1 Introduction 1 // Chapter 1 The Science of Mammalogy 2 // Mammals 2 // Why Study Mammals? 3 // History of Mammalogy 5 // Modern Mammalogy as an Interdisciplinary // Science 12 // Resources for Mammalogists 13 // Summary 14 // Suggested Readings 15 // Discussion Questions 15 // Chapter 2 Methods for Studying // Mammals 16 // Field Methods 17 // Laboratory and Museum Methods 22 // Systematic Methods 33 // Summary 42 // Suggested Readings 44 // Discussion Questions 45 // Chapter 3 Phylogeny and Diversification // of Mammals 46 // Relationships and Classification of Living // Mammalian Orders 46 // Timing of the Mammalian Radiations 53 // Summary 57 // Suggested Readings 58 // Discussion Questions 59 // Chapter 4 Evolution and Dental // Characteristics 60 // Synapsid Lineage 60 // Origin of Mammals: Monophyletic or // Polyphyletic? 65 // The First Mammals 66 // Cenozoic Mammals and Mammalian Radiation 70 // Interrelationship of Characteristics and Increased // Metabolism 71 // Summary of Anatomical Trends in Organization // from Mammal-Like Amniotes to Mammals 72 // Characteristics of Modern Mammals 73 // Dentition 74 // Summary 78 // Suggested Readings 78 // Discussion Questions 79 // Chapter 5 Biogeography 80 // Global Provincialism of Mammalian // Distributions 81 // Historical Biogeography 84 // Ecological Biogeography 97 // Summary 104 // Suggested Readings 105 // Discussion Questions 106 // PART 2 Structure and Function 107 // Chapter 6 Integument, Support, and // Movement 108 // Integument 108 // Basic Skeletal Patterns 116 // Muscles 119 // Modes of Locomotion 120 // Summary 127 // Suggested Readings 128 // Discussion Questions 129 // Chapter 7 Modes of Feeding 130 // Foods and Feeding 130 // Foraging Strategies 154 // Summary 159 // Suggested Readings 160 // Discussion Questions 161 // Chapter 8 Environmental Adaptations 162 // Heat Transfer between a Mammal and the // Environment 163 // Temperature Regulation 163 // Adaptations to Cold 163 //

Adaptations to Heat 184 // Summary 198 // Suggested Readings 198 // Discussion Questions 199 // Chapter 9 Reproduction 200 // The Reproductive Systems 201 // Gestation 212 // Reproductive Variations 214 // Parturition 217 // Lactation 218 // Summary 22 0 // Suggested Readings 221 // Discussion Questions 222 // PART 3 Adaptive Radiation and Diversity 223 // Chapter 10 Orders: Monotremata // and Marsupials 228 // Monotremata 228 // Marsupials 234 // Summary 260 // Suggested Readings 261 // Discussion Questions 261 // Chapter 11 Orders: Macroscelidea, // Afrosoricida, Tubulidentata 262 // Macroscelidea 262 // Afrosoricida 264 // Tubulidentata 266 // Summary 268 // Suggested Readings 268 // Discussion Questions 269 // Chapter 12 Orders: Proboscidea, // Hyracoidea, and Sirenia 270 // Proboscidea 271 // Hyracoidea 277 // Sirenia 280 // Summary 285 // Suggested Readings 286 // Discussion Questions 287 // Chapter 13 Orders: Pilosa and Cingulata 288 // Superorder Xenarthra 288 // Summary 296 // Suggested Readings 297 // Discussion Questions 297 // Chapter 14 Orders: Scandentia // and Dermoptera 298 // Scandentia 298 // Dermoptera 300 // Summary 302 // Suggested Readings 302 // Discussion Questions 303 // Chapter 15 Order: Primates 304 // Ordinal and Morphological Characteristics 305 // Fossil History 307 // Economics and Conservation 307 // Suborder Strepsirrhini 308 // Suborder Haplorrhini 314 // Summary 325 // Suggested Readings 326 // Discussion Questions 327 // Chapter 16 Orders: Rodentia // and Lagomorpha 328 // Rodentia 328 // Lagomorpha 359 // Summary 364 // Suggested Readings 365 // Discussion Questions 365 // Chapter 17 Order: Eulipotyphla 366 // Order Eulipotyphla 366 // Summary 375 // Suggested Readings 375 // Discussion Questions 375 // Chapter 18 Orders: Carnivora // and Pholidota 376 // Order Carnivora 376 // Order Pholidota 398 // Summary 401 // Suggested Readings 402 // Discussion Questions 403 //

Chapter 19 Orders: Perissodactyla and Cetartiodactyla 404 // Perissodactyla 405 // Cetartiodactyla 413 // Summary 428 // Suggested Readings 429 // Discussion Questions 429 // Chapter 20 Infraorder: Cetacea 430 // Morphology 431 // Fossil History 439 // Economics and Conservation 441 // Parvorders and Families 442 // Summary 455 // Suggested Readings 456 // Discussion Questions 457 // Chapter 21 Order: Chiroptera 458 // Suborders and Superfamilies 459 // Morphology 460 // Fossil History 467 // Economics and Conservation 467 // Suborder Yinpterochiroptera 469 // Suborder Yangochiroptera 474 // Summary 483 // Suggested Readings 484 // Discussion Questions 484 // PART 4 Behavior and Ecology 485 // Chapter 22 Sexual Selection, Parental // Care, and Mating Systems 486 // Anisogamy and Competition for Mates 486 // Sexual Selection 488 // Parental Investment 492 // Parent-Offspring Conflict 493 // Mating Systems 494 // Summary 497 // Suggested Readings 498 // Discussion Questions 499 // Chapter 23 Social Behavior and // Communication 500 // The Sociality Spectrum 500 // Why Mammals Live in Groups 501 // How Social Behavior Evolves 504 // Communication 508 // Summary 515 // Suggested Readings 515 // Discussion Questions 515 // Chapter 24 Movement Patterns and // Spatial Relationships 516 // Home Range 516 // Territory 517 // Habitat and Selection of Resources 519 // Dispersal 521 // Migration 524 // Summary 528 // Suggested Readings 528 // Discussion Questions 579 // Chapter 25 Populations and Life History 530 // Population Processes 530 // Population Growth and Equilibrium 532 // Life History 536 // Cycles 537 // Summary 540 // Suggested Readings 541 // Discussion Questions 541 // Chapter 26 Community Ecology 542 // Ecological Niche 543 // Species Interactions and Community Structure 543 // Community Function 554 // Community Patterns 555 // Summary 561 // Suggested Readings 561 // Discussion Questions 562 // PART 5 Special Topics 563 //

Chapter 27 Parasites and Zoonotic // Diseases 564 // Mammalian Parasites and Diseases 564 // Vector-Borne Zoonoses 566 // Nonvector Zoonoses 570 // Summary 573 // Suggested Readings 573 // Discussion Questions 573 // Chapter 28 Conservation 574 // Nature of the Problem 575 // Approaches to Solutions 584 // Case Studies 585 // Summary 588 // Suggested Readings 588 // Discussion Questions 588 // Glossary 589 // References 610 // Credits 681 // Index 686