Lizard Ecology

by Vitt, Laurie J.; Pianka, Eric R.; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

• ISBN13: 9780691036496
• ISBN10: 0691036497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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., Emília 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).

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Measuring Trade-offs: A Review of Studies of Costs of Reproduction in Lizards	p. 7
Understanding Geographic Life-History Variation in Lizards	p. 31
Lizard Egg Environments	p. 51
Experimental Tests of Reproductive Allocation Paradigms	p. 73
Prey Chemical Discrimination, Foraging Mode, and Phylogeny	p. 95
Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Lizard Territoriality	p. 117
Mate Limitation in Male Norops humilis	p. 145
Population Dynamics and Pair Fidelity in Sleepy Lizards	p. 159
Determinants of Dispersal Behavior: The Common Lizard as a Case Study	p. 183
Covariation between Morphology and Locomotory Performance in Sceloporine Lizards	p. 207
Phylogenetic Analyses of Lizard Endurance Capacity in Relation to Body Size and Body Temperature	p. 237
Long-Term Population Fluctuations of a Tropical Lizard: A Test of Causality	p. 267
Spatial and Temporal Variation in Structure of a Diverse Lizard Assemblage in Arid Australia	p. 287
Historical Contingency and Lizard Community Ecology	p. 319
References	p. 335
Author Index	p. 389
Species Index	p. 397
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