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Zusatztext The research program of Jaeger et al. has had a profound effect not only on our understanding of red-backed salamanders, but has also made clear how remarkably complex animal behavior can be in species once considered lowly and simple. [...] Finally, this volume ends with a call to future scientists: [the studies] reviewed in this book have produced a jigsaw puzzle of P. cinereus, with only a few of the pieces fitting together. We hope that younger colleagues now studying P. cinereus will complete the jigsaw puzzle, or at least add new pieces to it. I was certainly inspired to sit down at the puzzle table. Informationen zum Autor Robert G. Jager is a retired former Professor of Biology at the Unviersity of Lousiana at Lafayette. He has spent the last forty years working on territoriality and interspecific competition in the red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus. He is currently retired but continues to publish actively. Current research examines social behavior and, in particular, social monogamy/polygamy in red-backed salamanders.Birgit Gollmann is a Researcher at the Institut fur Zoologie at the Universitat Wien in Vienna, Austria.Caitlin Gabor is a Professor of Biology at Texas State University.Nancy Kohn is an adjunct faculty member in the department of Biology at the College of New Jersey.Carl D. Anthony is a Professor in the Biology Department at John Carroll University. Klappentext Examines over fifty years of research of the red-backed salamander. Zusammenfassung Examines over fifty years of research of the red-backed salamander. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prelude 1.1 Bob Jaeger meets the eastern red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus 1.2 An introduction to red-backed salamanders 1.3 The plot of our research program 1.4 Comments concerning methodology and statistical paradigms 2. Interspecific competition between Plethodon cinereus and P. shenandoah 2.1 Ecological studies 2.2 Behavioral experiments 2.3 Selected, recent research by others: interspecific competition 3. Intraspecific territoriality by P. cinereus 3.1 Definition and theory 3.2 Distribution and prey availability 3.3 Site tenacity by P. cinereus 3.4 Determining sex and defining behavioral patterns 3.5 The use of odors and dear enemy recognition 3.6 The expulsion of intruders 3.7 Testing territoriality in the forest 3.8 Numerous variables that affect territorial contests 3.9 Life history traits and territorial contests 3.10 Seasonal and geographic variation in territorial agonistic behavior 3.11 Selected, recent research by others: intraspecific territoriality 4. Foraging tactics by P. cinereus within territories 4.1. Foraging on live versus dead prey 4.2. Diet breadth 4.3. Optimal prey choice 4.4. Territorial and foraging behavioral conflicts 4.5. Assessing prey densities 4.6. Judging prey profitabilities 4.7. Conflicts between foraging behavior and territorial defense 4.8. Diet diversity and clutch size 4.9. Selected, recent research by others: foraging tactics 5. Pheromonal glands and pheromonal communication by P. cinereus 5.1. Early studies suggested that pheromones do occur 5.2. Do males of P. cinereus produce territorial pheromones? 5.3. Do females of P. cinereus produce territorial pheromones? 5.4. Where are those pheromones produced in males and females? 5.5. Focusing on the postcloacal gland 5.6. What information does the postcloacal gland communicate? 5.7. What signals do pheromones communicate? 5.8. Scent matching and tail autotomy 5.9. Do territorial pheromones aid in homing behavior by P. cinereus? 5.10. Are pheromones volatile? 5.11. More research needed 5.12. Selected, recent research by others: pheromonal communication 6. Interspecific territoriality and other interspecific behavioral interactions
