Biology and Conservation of Musteloids
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 October 2017
- ISBN 9780198759812
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages720 pages
- Size 248x190x36 mm
- Weight 1586 g
- Language English 50
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Short description:
This is the first specific coverage of musteloid conservation biology, written and edited by world-renowned specialists in the field.
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The musteloids are the most diverse super-family among carnivores, ranging from little known, exotic, and highly-endangered species to the popular and familiar, and include a large number of introduced invasives. They feature terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal, and aquatic members, ranging from tenacious predators to frugivorous omnivores, span weights from a 100g weasel to 30kg giant otters, and express a range of social behaviours from the highly gregarious to the fiercely solitary. Musteloids are the subjects of extensive cutting-edge research from phylogenetics to the evolution of sociality and through to the practical implications of disease epidemiology, introduced species management, and climate change. Their diversity and extensive biogeography inform a wide spectrum of ecological theory and conservation practice.
The editors of this book have used their combined 90 years of experience working on the behaviour and ecology of wild musteloids to draw together a unique network of the world's most successful and knowledgeable experts. The book begins with nine review chapters covering hot topics in musteloid biology including evolution, disease, social communication, and management. These are followed by twenty extensive case studies providing a range of comprehensive geographic and taxonomic coverage. The final chapter synthesises what has been discussed in the book, and reflects on the different and diverse conservation needs of musteloids and the wealth of conservation lessons they offer.
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids provides a conceptual framework for future research and applied conservation management that is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in musteloid and carnivore ecology and conservation biology. It will also be of relevance and use to conservationists and wildlife managers.
[This] volume is a must have for all musteloid researchers, conservationists, and enthusiasts. As a fellow musteloid researcher, I have used this book quite often in my research. The knowledge and expertise in musteloid biology gathered in this volume is unparalleled.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Reviews
Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild musteloids
The evolutionary history and molecular systematics of the Musteloidea
Form and function of the musteloids
The population dynamics of bite-sized predators: prey dependence, territoriality and mobility
Communication amongst the musteloids: Signs, signals, and cues
Musteloid sociology: the grass-roots of society
People and wild native musteloids
Stink or swim - techniques to meet the challenges for the study and conservation of small critters that hide, swim or climb and may otherwise make themselves unpleasant
Musteloid Diseases - Implications for conservation and species management
Part II: Case studies
Small mustelids in New Zealand: invasion ecology in a different world
The fisher as a model organism
Quantifying loss and degradation of former American Marten habitat due to the impacts of forestry operations and associated road networks in northern Idaho, USA
Asian badgers - the same, only different: How diversity among badger societies informs socio-ecological theory and challenges conservation
The Bornean carnivore community: Lessons from a little-known guild
Evolution, natural history, and conservation of black-footed ferrets
Control of an invasive species: the American mink in Great Britain
European mink - restoration attempts for a species on the brink of extinction
Social ethology of the wolverine
Ecotypic variation affects the conservation of American badgers endangered along their northern range extent
European badgers and the control of bovine tuberculosis in the United Kingdom
Meline mastery of meteorological mayhem: The effects of climate changeability on European badger population dynamics
Giant otters: using knowledge of life history for conservation
Advances in the physiology, behaviour and ecology of sea otters
Competition and coexistence in sympatric skunks
Range decline and landscape ecology of the eastern spotted skunk
Kinkajou - the tree top specialist
On the mortality and management of a ubiquitous musteloid: the common racoon
Causes and consequences of coati sociality
Conservation genetics of red pandas in the wild
Part III: Synthesis
Beneath the umbrella: Conservation out of the limelight
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids
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