Lizard Ecology

The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode

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Hardcover | 12 July 2007

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The foraging mode of lizards has been a central theme in guiding research in lizard biology for three decades. Foraging mode has been shown to be a pervasive evolutionary force molding the diet, ecology, behavior, anatomy, biomechanics, life history and physiology of lizards. This volume reviews the state of our knowledge on the effects of foraging mode on these and other organismal systems to show how they have evolved, over a wide taxonomic survey of lizard groups. The reviews presented here reveal the continuous nature of foraging strategies in lizards and snakes, providing the reader with an up-to-date review of the field, and will equip researchers with new insights and future directions for the sit-and-wait vs. wide foraging paradigm. This will serve as a reference book for herpetologists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists and animal behaviorists.

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Review of the hardback: 'A major strength of the book is the integration of many subfields of ecology and evolutionary biology into a cohesive collection ... this volume serves as a good base to easily determine what remains to be done in the realm of foraging biology ... This publication will certainly be a useful resource for those interested in the evolution of animal foraging and traits associated with different foraging strategies, but it will also appeal to other herpetologists, behavioural ecologists, and evolutionary ecologists.' The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Preface
Historical introduction: On widely foraging for Kalahari lizards
Organismal Patterns of Variation with Foraging Mode
Movement patterns in lizards: measurement, modality, and behavioral correlates Gad Perry
Morphology, performance and foraging mode
Physiological correlates of lizard foraging mode
Lizard energetics and the sit-and-wait vs. wide-foraging paradigm
Feeding ecology in the natural world
Why is intraspecific niche partitioning more common in snakes than in lizards?
Herbivory and foraging mode in lizards
Lizard chemical senses, chemosensory behavior, and foraging mode
Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode
Prey capture and prey processing behavior and the evolution of lingual and sensory characteristics: divergences and convergences in lizard feeding biology
The meaning and consequences of foraging mode in snakes
Environmental Influences on Foraging Mode
The foraging biology of the Gekkota: life in the middle
Foraging mode in the African cordylids and plasticity of foraging behavior in Platysaurus broadleyi
Interactions between habitat use, behaviour and the trophic niche of lacertid lizards Bieke Vanhooydonck
Food acquisition modes and habitat use in lizards: questions from an integrative perspective
The evolution of foraging behavior in the Galápagos marine iguana: natural and sexual selection on body size drives ecological, morphological, and behavioral specialization Maren
The evolution of the foraging mode paradigm in lizard ecology
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