Research Catalog

Title

Lizard ecology; a symposium. William W. Milstead, editor.

Author

Symposium on Lizard Ecology (1965 : University of Missouri--Kansas City)

Publication

Columbia, University of Missouri Press [1967]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Milstead, William W.
• University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Description

ix, 300 pages illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Lizards
• Lizards > Ecology
• Lizards
• 42.82 amphibians, reptiles
• Hagedissen
• Ecologie

Genre/Form

Congresses (form)

Note

• The formal papers and edited transcripts of the panel discussions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

I. Population ecology. Introduction / W. Frank Blair ; Home range, density, dynamics, and structure of a Texas population of the lizard Uta stansburiana / Donald W. Tinkle ; Ecological studies of lizards on the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation / Henry S. Fitch ; Comparative reproduction in three species of the genus Uma / Wilbur W. Mayhew -- Discussion / W. Frank Blair, moderator ; Harold Heatwole, guest panelist -- II. Social behavior. Introduction / Llewellyn T. Evans ; Aggression and social structure in iguanid lizards / Charles C. Carpenter ; The adaptive significance of territoriality in iguanid lizards / A. Stanley Rand ; Evolution and behavior in West Indian anoles / Rodolfo Ruibal ; Discussion / Llewellyn T. Evans, moderator ; William W. Milstead, guest panelist -- III. Physiological ecology. Introduction / Bayard H. Brattstrom ; Color adaptation in desert reptiles and its thermal relationships / Kenneth S. Norris ; Interspecific variation in physiological responses of lizards to temperature / William R. Dawson ; The role of the cardiovascular system in oxygen transport and thermoregulation in lizards / Vance A. Tucker ; Discussion / Bayard H. Brattstrom, moderator ; James E. Heath, guest panelist.

LCCN

66017955

OCLC

• ocm01144295
• 1144295
• SCSB-316462

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library