American and Australasian marsupials : an evolutionary, biogeographical, and ecological approach / Nilton C. Cáceres, Christopher R. Dickman, editors
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- Cham : Springer, [2023]
- 1 online resource ( xl, 1642 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
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- 9783031084195 ((electronic bk.))
- 3031084195 ((electronic bk.))
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- 9783031084188
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- Introduction
- Section I. Evolution and Diversification: Checklist of New World Marsupials
- Taxonomy and Diversity of Living New World Marsupials
- Cenozoic Metatherian Evolution in the Americas
- Paleogene Metatherians from the Itabora Basin: Diversity, Affinities, and Paleobiogegraphic Context.-Postweaning Skull Growth in Living American and Australasian Marsupials: Allometry and Evolution
- Evolutionary Diversification of Skull Morphology in Faunivorous Marsupials: A Comparison between the American and the Australasian Lineages
- Morphology, Form and Function in Didelphid Marsupials
- Hair Microstructure Diversification in Neotropical Marsupials: the Roles of Phylogenetic Signal and Adaptation
- Patterns of Phenotypic Evolution and Diversification in the Short-Tailed Opossum Genus Monodelphis
- Section II. Biogeography: From Bergmanns to Copes rules: An Overview on the Trait Variation in New World Marsupials
- A Macroevolutionary Approach to Study the Age-Area Relationships for the New World Marsupials
- An Overview of Species Richness and Beta Diversity Patterns of New World Marsupials
- Diversification of the Didelphid Marsupials of South America.
- Diversity and Endemism of Marsupials in the Guiana Region (northeastern Amazonia)
- Diversity, Endemism, and Biogeographical History of Marsupials from the South American Dry Diagonal
- Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Species Richness and Endemism of Marsupials in the Atlantic Forest in eastern South America
- Section III. Ecology: Population Dynamics of Neotropical Marsupials
- More than Semelparity or Iteroparity: Diversity of Reproductive Strategies in New World Marsupials
- Movement Patterns, Habitat Selection, and Home Range of New World Marsupials
- Positional Behavior and Locomotor Performance of New World Marsupials: Links with Habitat and Substrate Use
- Food Habits of New World Marsupials
- Feeding Patterns of Marsupials in a Neotropical Savanna: Intra- and Interspecific Diet Variation and Seasonal Patterns
- Activity Patterns of New World Marsupials
- IV. Conservation
- Conservation Biogeography of Living New World marsupials (Didelphimorphia, Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata).
- Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Assemblages, Populations, and Individuals of New World marsupials.-. Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation per se in Didelphid Marsupials of the Atlantic Forest
- Left Out of the Pouch: Marsupials and the Coverage Provided by Protected Areas in Brazil.-. Unraveling Human-Wildlife Interactions in Urban Areas: the Case of Didelphis aurita in a Large Metropolis
- Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, and Transformation are threatening a Relict Marsupial from Southern South American Temperate Rainforests
- Concluding Remarks.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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