Research Catalog

Title

The quintessential naturalist : honoring the life and legacy of Oliver P. Pearson / Douglas A. Kelt [and others] editors.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kelt, Douglas A. (Douglas Alan), 1959-

Description

xii, 981 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

University of California publications in zoology ; v. 134

Uniform Title

University of California publications in zoology ; v. 134.

Subjects

• Pearson, Oliver P (Oliver Payne)
• Mammals > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Oliver P. Pearson: Scientist, Statesman, Gentleman / Douglas A. Kelt, Enrique P. Lessa, Jorge Salazar-Bravo and James L. Patton -- Bibliography for Oliver P. Pearson -- Pt. 1. Introduction: Ecology, Biogeography, Natural History -- Growth Rates of Male California Voles During a Peak Density Year: The Chitty Effect Revisited / William Z. Lidicker, Jr. -- The Relative Importance of Predation, Food, and Interspecific Competition for Growth of Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Populations / George O. Batzli, Steven J. Harper and Yu-teh K. Lin -- The Evolution of Energetics in Birds and Mammals / Brian K. McNab -- Energy Budget in Subterranean Rodents: Insights from the Tuco-tuco Ctenomys talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) / C. Daniel Antinuchi, Roxana R. Zenuto, Facunda Luna, Ana Paula Cutrera, Paula P. Perissinotti and Cristina Busch -- Effects of Biotic Interactions on Spatial Behavior of Small Mammals in a Semiarid Community in North-Central Chile / John A. Yunger, Peter L. Meserve and Julio R. Gutierrez -- Physiological Flexibility in Field Urine Osmolality of Rodents from Semi-arid Chile / Francisco Bozinovic, Mauricio Lima, Leonardo D. Bacigalupe, Julio R. Gutierrez, Mario Rosenmann and Arturo Cortes -- Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea culeou) in Southwestern Argentina / Richard D. Sage, Oliver P. Pearson, Javier Sanguinetti and Anita K. Pearson -- Trophic Relationships Within a Highland Rodent Assemblage from Manu National Park, Cusco, Peru / Sergio Solari -- Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Bolivian High Andes: An Initial Comparison of Diversity Patterns in Polylepis Woodlands / Teresa Tarifa, James Aparicio E. and Eric Yensen -- Patterns of Small Mammal Species Richness in Mediterranean and Temperate Chile / Hernan L. Cofre, Horacio Samaniego and Pablo A. Marquet -- The Bat Fauna of Costa Rica's Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and Its Implications for Bat Conservation / Robert M. Timm and Deedra K. McClearn -- How Well Do Protected Areas Represent the Terrestrial Mammal Fauna of South America? / Marcelo F. Tognelli -- Domestication of Guinea Pigs from a Southern Peru-Northern Chile Wild Species and their Middle Pre-Columbian Mummies / Angel E. Spotorno, German Manriquez, Andrea Fernandez L., Juan Carlos Marin, Fermin Gonzalez and Jane Wheeler -- Pt. 2. Introduction: Systematics, Taxonomy, Evolution -- Resolution of Some Problematic Type Localities for Sigmodontine Rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) / Ulyses F. J. Pardinas, Pablo Teta, Guillermo D'Elia, Sebastian Cirignoli and Pablo E. Ortiz -- The Wild Mammals of Jujuy Province, Argentina: Systematics and Distribution / M. Monica Diaz and Ruben M. Barquez -- Systematics and Distribution of Marsupials in Argentina: A Review / David A. Flores, M. Monica Diaz and Ruben M. Barquez -- The Ecology and Evolutionary History of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus in Southern South America / R. Eduardo Palma, Fernando Torres-Perez and Dusan Boric-Bargetto -- The Octodontidae Revisited / Milton H. Gallardo, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Claudio A. Gonzalez and Carolina A. Rios -- Morphological and Molecular Variation within Little Big-eared Bats of the Genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador / Rene M. Fonseca, Steven R. Hoofer, Calvin A. Porter, Chrissy A. Cline, Deidre A. Parish, Federico G. Hoffmann and Robert J. Baker -- A New Species of Thomasomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Central Bolivia / Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Terry L. Yates -- A New Species of Phyllotis (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from the Upper Montane Forest of the Yungas of Northwestern Argentina / J. Pablo Jayat, Guillermo D'Elia, Ulyses F. J. Pardinas and Juan G. Namen -- A Molecular Reappraisal of the Systematics of the Leaf-eared Mice Phyllotis and their Relatives / Scott J. Steppan, O. Ramirez, Jenner Banbury, Dorothee Huchon, Victor Pacheco, Laura I. Walker and Angel E. Spotorno -- Molecular Phylogenetics and Diversification of South American Grass Mice, Genus Akodon / Margaret F. Smith and James L. Patton -- Phylogeography of the Tuco-tuco Ctenomys pearsoni: mtDNA Variation and its Implication for Chromosomal Differentiation / Ivanna H. Tomasco and Enrique P. Lessa -- Phylogenetic Relationships of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents Using DNA Sequences from Beta Fibrinogen and Cytochrome B / Serena A. Reeder and Robert D. Bradley -- Nucleolar Activity and Distribution of Ribosomal Genes in Phyllotis Rodent Species and their Laboratory Hybrids / Laura I. Walker and Sergio V. Flores -- Ecological and Phylogenetic Significance of AFLP DNA Diversity in 4 Species of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats (Spalax) in Israel / Andrei V. Polyakov, Alex Beharav, Tamar Krugman, Aaron Avivi and Eviatar Nevo -- Interspecific Scaling and Ontogenetic Growth Patterns of the Skull in Living and Fossil Ctenomyid and Octodontid rodents (Caviomorpha: Octodontoidea) / Aldo I. Vassallo and Matias S. Mora.

ISBN

• 9780520098596 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520098595 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007014355

OCLC

• ocn122715394
• 122715394
• SCSB-5373788

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries