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This volume provides comprehensive, up-to-date overviews of the biology of each European Eulipotyphla species, including palaeontology, genetics, physiology, reproduction and development, ecology (habitat, diet, mortality, population dynamics), and behavior. Their economic importance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also discussed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal, and key literature. In addition, this volume contains a useful identification key to families, genera and species. This impressive volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European Eulipotyphla and will appeal to academics, students and professionals in mammal research.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Leszek Rychlik
is Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and Head of the Department of Systematic Zoology. His research interests include various aspects of behavioral and evolutionary ecology (intra- and interspecific competition, foraging, habitat preferences, social organization, energetic strategies, animal personalities, venomousness, adaptation to arboreality) of mammals, mainly shrews. Currently, he is studying the mechanisms of ecological niche partitioning and the influence of heavy metals and alkaloids on the behavior and condition of insectivores and rodents. He has conducted his research in Poland, Germany, Portugal, Vietnam, Slovakia, Greece, Arizona, Siberia, and most recently in Ghana. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland in 1995 and completed his habilitation in 2006 at the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS in Warsaw. He was an Associate Editor of the journal
Acta Theriologica
in the years 1990-2004.
Boris I. Sheftel
is a leading scientist at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. His research interests include the biology of small mammals, especially shrews. Among biological problems, he pays special attention to ecology (long-term population dynamics, interspecific relationships, community structure), zoogeography, phylogeography, evolution and taxonomy. For 30 years, he has been the scientific director of the Yenisei Ecological Station of the A.N. Severtsov Institute in Central Siberia, where he conducts research on community structure and long-term population dynamics of small mammals. His field research has been conducted primarily in Siberia, Mongolia, and central China on the eastern slopes of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. He received his PhD in 1985. His dissertation was devoted to the partitioning of ecological niches among nine species of shrews in central Siberia.
