Foreword by Ilkka Hanski ...................................... vii
Preface ........................................................ xi
Acknowledgments .............................................. xiii
Contributors ................................................. xvii
1 Small Mammal Ecology: A Landscape Perspective ................ 1
Gary W. Barrett and John D. Peles
Section 1 Patterns of Movement and Habitat Use
2 Behavioral Model Systems .................................... 11
Jerry O. Wolff
3 Influence of Landscape Structure on Movement Patterns of
Small Mammals ............................................... 41
John D. Peles, David R. Bowne, and Gary W. Barrett
4 Patterns and Impacts of Movements at Different Scales in
Small Mammals ............................................... 63
James E. Diffendorfer, Michael S. Gaines, and Robert
D. Holt
5 Habitat Selection in Geographically Complex Landscapes ...... 89
Brent J. Danielson and Greg S. Anderson
Section 2 Population and Community Dynamics in Heterogeneous
Landscapes
6 Experimental Analyses of Population Dynamics: Scaling Up
to the Landscape ........................................... 107
George O. Batzli, Steven J. Harper, Yu-Teh K. Lin, and
Elizabeth A. Desy
7 Spatial Demographic Synchrony in Fragmented Populations .... 129
Rolf A. Ims and Harry P. Andreassen
8 EMS Studies at the Individual, Patch, and Landscape
Scale: Designing Landscapes to Measure Scale-Specific
Responses to Habitat Fragmentation ......................... 147
Michael A. Bowers and James L. Dooley, Jr.
9 The Relative Importance of Small-Scale and Landscape-
Level Heterogeneity in Structuring Small Mammal
Distributions .............................................. 175
E. William Schweiger, James E. Diffendorfer, Raymond
Pierotti, and Robert D. Holt
Section 3 Ecological Processes at Habitat Edges
10 Responses of Small Mammals to Habitat Edges ................ 211
William Z. Lidicker, Jr., and Jeffrey A. Peterson
11 Interactions Between Meadow Voles and White-Footed Mice
at Forest-Oldfield Edges: Competition and Net Effects on
Tree Invasion of Oldfields ................................. 229
Richard S. Ostfeld, Robert H. Manson, and Charles
D. Canham
12 Effects of Vegetation Type and Adjacent Agricultural
Matrix on Fencerow Use by Small Mammals:
A Nonmanipulative Experiment ............................... 249
John Wegner, Kringen Henein, and Lenore Fahrig
Section 4 Experimental Designs and Parameter Estimators at
the Landscape Level
13 Experimental Design at the Landscape Scale ................. 263
Robert D. Holt and Michael A. Bowers
14 Demographic Parameter Estimation for Experimental
Landscape Studies on Small Mammal Populations .............. 287
James D. Nichols and Cynthia J. Coffman
Section 5 Synthesis
15 Synthesis: A Review of the Science and Prescriptions
for the Future ............................................. 313
Michael A. Bowers and Gary W. Barrett
Index ......................................................... 339
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