Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals

INTRODUCTION.- 1. Small Mammal Ecology: A Landscape Perspective.- I. PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT AND HABITAT USE. 2. On Applying Behavioral Model Systems to Landscape Ecology. 3. Influence of Landscape Structure on Movement patterns of Small Mammals. 4. Patterns and Impacts of Movements at Different Scales in Small Mammals. 5. Pattern Selection in Geographically Complex Environments.- II. POPULATION AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES. 6. Experimental Analysis of Population Dynamics: Scaling up to the Landscape. 7. Spatial Demographic Synchrony in Fragmented Populations. 8. EMS Studies at the Individual, Patch and landscape Scale: Designing Landscapes to Measure Scale-Specific Responses to Habitat Fragmentation. 9. The Relative Importance of Small Scale and Landscape-Level Heterogeneity in Structuring Small Mammal Distribution: An Experimental Study of Habitat Fragmentation.- III. ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AT HABITAT EDGES. 10. Responses of Small Mammals to Habitat Edges. 11. Interactions Between Meadow Voles and White Footed Voles at Forest-Oldfield Edges: Competition and Net Effects on Tree Invasion of Oldfields. And much more ...- IV. Experimental Designs and PDarameter Estimators at The Landscape Level.- V. Synthesis.- Index.