Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Small Mammal Ecology: A Landscape Perspective

   1. Small Mammal Ecology: A Landscape Perspective

      • Gary W. Barrett, John D. Peles

      Pages 1-8

3. Patterns of Movement and Habitat Use

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10

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   2. Behavioral Model Systems

      • Jerry O. Wolff

      Pages 11-40

   3. Influence of Landscape Structure on Movement Patterns of Small Mammals

      • John D. Peles, David R. Bowne, Gary W. Barrett

      Pages 41-62

   4. Patterns and Impacts of Movements at Different Scales in Small Mammals

      • James E. Diffendorfer, Michael S. Gaines, Robert D. Holt

      Pages 63-88

   5. Habitat Selection in Geographically Complex Landscapes

      • Brent J. Danielson, Greg S. Anderson

      Pages 89-103

4. Population and Community Dynamics in Heterogeneous Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-106

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   2. Experimental Analyses of Population Dynamics: Scaling Up to the Landscape

      • George O. Batzli, Steven J. Harper, Yu-Teh K. Lin, Elizabeth A. Desy

      Pages 107-127

   3. Spatial Demographic Synchrony in Fragmented Populations

      • Rolf A. Ims, Harry P. Andreassen

      Pages 129-145

   4. EMS Studies at the Individual, Patch, and Landscape Scale: Designing Landscapes to Measure Scale-Specific Responses to Habitat Fragmentation

      • Michael A. Bowers, James L. Dooley Jr.

      Pages 147-174

   5. The Relative Importance of Small-Scale and Landscape-Level Heterogeneity in Structuring Small Mammal Distributions

      • E. William Schweiger, James E. Diffendorfer, Raymond Pierotti, Robert D. Holt

      Pages 175-207

5. Ecological Processes at Habitat Edges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-210

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   2. Responses of Small Mammals to Habitat Edges

      • William Z. Lidicker Jr., Jeffrey A. Peterson

      Pages 211-227

   3. Interactions Between Meadow Voles and White-Footed Mice at Forest—Oldfield Edges: Competition and Net Effects on Tree Invasion of Oldfields

      • Richard S. Ostfeld, Robert H. Manson, Charles D. Canham

      Pages 229-247

   4. Effects of Vegetation Type and Adjacent Agricultural Matrix on Fencerow Use by Small Mammals: A Nonmanipulative Experiment

      • John Wegner, Kringen Henein, Lenore Fahrig

      Pages 249-260

6. Experimental Designs and Parameter Estimators at the Landscape Level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-262

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   2. Experimental Design at the Landscape Scale

      • Robert D. Holt, Michael A. Bowers

      Pages 263-285

   3. Demographic Parameter Estimation for Experimental Landscape Studies on Small Mammal Populations

      • James D. Nichols, Cynthia J. Coffman

      Pages 287-309

7. Synthesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-311

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Small mammals can be regarded as excellent subjects to test suppositions about population growth migration and reproduction, and, in particular, on how the complex physical structure of the environment affects the ecology of populations and communities. In other words, these small mammal studies can help formulate landscape ecological principles. This book summarizes a great deal of experimental work on the spatial ecology of small mammals. The field has entered an exciting stage with several new techniques (such as GIS and systems modeling) becoming available. Leading contributors describe and analyze the most well-known case studies and provide new insights into how landscape patterns and processes have had an impact on small mammals and how small mammals have, in turn, affected landscape structure and composition.

• ecological principles
• ecology
• environment
• forest
• landscape ecology
• mammals
• matrix
• migration
• population dynamics
• reproduction
• vegetation

• Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  Gary W. Barrett

• Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, The University of Georgia, Aiken, USA

  John D. Peles

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