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El. knyga: Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution

(Research Associate, Wildlife and Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK), (Director, Wildlife and Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK)
  • Formatas: 752 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Oct-2022
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780192659941
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  • Formatas: 752 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Oct-2022
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780192659941
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The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and evolution. Through a mix of
accessible, highly readable prose and cutting-edge science, the authors weave a riveting scientific story of the lives of these intriguing creatures, highlighting the insights offered to science more broadly through badgers as a model system. They provide a paradigm - from population down to
molecule - for a deeper understanding of mammalian behaviour, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. The real value of this long-term study is particularly apparent with current and globally relevant challenges such as climate change, disease epidemics, and senescence. This
unique dataset enables us to examine these issues in a context that only a half-century experiment can reveal.

The Badgers of Wytham Woods will appeal to a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and students at all levels, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and to the natural historian fascinated by wild animals and the remarkable
processes of nature they exemplify.

Recenzijos

The 19 chapters comprehensively address behavior, population ecology, and the effects of disease and weather on the European badger, and make appropriate comparisons with the other five genera of the world's badger species. During the study, life history data was recorded on over 1,800 individuals. Given the size of the study population and time depth of the study itself, there should be no surprise that such an enormous amount of information is presented in one volume. * Choice * This book is the product of 50 years of David's and 30 years of Chris's study of badgers in an Oxfordshire wood. You can find anything you want to know about badgers in this book, and it is written in a way that wealth of detail is not intimidating. * Keith Somerville, The Shepherd *

Prologue xi
Maps of Wytham Badger Setts
xiii
Foreword xvi
1 Setting the Scene: Births and Beginnings
1(21)
2 It's Tough at the Bottom
22(8)
3 Apprenticeships for Badger Society
30(14)
4 Setts, Society, and Super-groups: The Geology of Social Behaviour
44(23)
5 The Sum of the Parts: knowing One's Place in Badger Society
67(25)
6 Social Odours: The Perfume of Society
92(23)
7 Sex: How and Why, and with Whom?
115(29)
8 Social Behaviour in an Uncooperative Society
144(20)
9 Who Goes There: Friend or Foe?
164(27)
10 The Ecological Foundations to Badger Group Living
191(30)
11 The Economics of Survival: Population Size, and Crashing Through the Ceiling
221(27)
12 Weather: Actuarial Insights
248(11)
13 Weather: Badgers Adapt or Die
259(13)
14 The Game of Life
272(33)
15 In Sickness and in Health
305(32)
16 The Story of Badgers and TB: Perturbation and Beyond
337(48)
17 Genetic Mate Choice--Quality Matters
385(28)
18 Senescence, Telomeres, and Life history Trade-offs
413(27)
19 Of the Same Stripe, or Not--Exceptions That Prove Rules
440(39)
References 479(71)
Index 550
Professor David Macdonald CBE has been Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University since founding it in 1986, and is also Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He began research in Wytham Woods in 1972, and has been studying badgers since then. In 1986 he began the routine annual sampling of badgers which is the foundation of this book. A recent survey by BBC Wildlife magazine listed him amongst the ten most influential living conservationists, and he has twice been awarded the Natural History Author of the Year.



Chris Newman joined the Wildlife Conservation Unit at Oxford University in 1991, spending 15 years living on-site in the heart of Wytham Woods which gave him unprecedented access to the 300 badgers that shared his garden. In 2019 he moved to Novia Scotia to work as an independent ecological consultant.
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