The Golden Mouse

From the Contents: The Golden Mouse: Natural History.- A Model Species for Addressing Questions Across Levels of Organization.- Rarity: An Unusual Niche Among Small Mammals.- A Model for Energy Efficiency.- An Ecological (Oikos) Engineer.- Population Dynamics.- Coexistence: Competition or Mutualism?.- Benefits of Living on the Second Floor .- Ecosystem Dynamics.- Landscape Dynamics.- Landscape Aesthetics.- Future Challenges and Opportunities Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction: The Golden Mouse: A Levels-of-Organization Perspective.- The Golden Mouse: Taxonomy and Natural History.- Levels of Organization: Population Ecology of the Golden Mouse.- Community Ecology of the Golden Mouse.- Ecosystem Ecology of the Golden Mouse.- Landscape Ecology of the Golden Mouse.- Transcending Processes: Relative Abundance and Conservation: Is the Golden Mouse a Rare Species?- The Golden Mouse: A Model of Energetic Efficiency.- Nesting Ecology of the Golden Mouse: An Oikos Engineer.- Ectoparasites, Bots, and Vector-Borne Diseases Associated with the Golden Mouse.- New Perspectives and Future Challenges: Landscape Aesthetics of the Golden Mouse.- Future Challenges and Research Opportunities: What Do We Really Know?- Index.

Gary Barrett, Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia, is the author of Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals, published by Springer in 1999, which has sold 846 copies. He is also the author with the late Eugene Odum of Fundamentals of Ecology, 5/e, published in 2004.

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