Intro -- Contents -- 1 The sentient forager -- 1.1 The optimal foraging distance -- 1.2 Learning to forage optimally -- Rule of thumb -- A computer program -- Trying it out -- Our lizard learns fast -- 1.3 Energy as a criterion -- Formulation with one prey -- Empirical parameters -- Optimal foraging predictions -- Learning to maximize yield -- Insects and diets, St. Eustatius -- Prey escape -- Final theory with multiple prey -- Optimal cutoff radii and yield -- Optimal prey size-body size relation -- Learning with three mobile prey types -- 1.4 Seasonality and growth, St. Martin -- 1.5 Growth of an optimal forager -- 1.6 Optimal life history of an optimal forager -- Expanding population-r-selection -- Steady state population-K-selection -- 1.7 Discussion -- 2 Invasion and coevolution -- 2.1 Biogeography of body size -- Overview of the islands -- The one-species islands -- The two-species islands -- Greater Antilles -- 2.2 Early hypotheses -- The invasion scenario -- The character-displacement scenario -- 2.3 Evidence for competition -- Correlations with food supply -- St. Martin and St. Eustatius -- Other introductions -- Competition summarized -- 2.4 Theory of faunal assembly -- Premises -- Invasion -- Coevolution -- Hypotheses summarized -- 2.5 Historical evidence -- Fossil anoles -- Excavations on Anguilla -- Early humans -- Phylogenetic analysis -- 2.6 Hypotheses evaluated -- 2.7 Biogeography of habitat use -- Niche axis complementarity -- Within- and between-habitat diversity -- 2.8 Theory of habitat use -- Multiple-niche axes -- Habitat segregation -- 2.9 Discussion -- 3 Origin of the Caribbean -- 3.1 Systematics of Anolis -- Early research -- Contemporary studies -- 3.2 Biogeographic data -- Nested-subset species/area relationship -- Amphibians and reptiles of Lesser Antilles -- Other taxa of West Indies -- 3.3 Geologic data.

Faults between north and south -- Guadeloupe derived from Puerto Rico -- Bonaire, La Blanquilla, and St. Lucia -- Schematic of Lesser Antilles -- 3.4 Discussion -- An ancient and heterogeneous Antilles -- A Pacific archipelago -- Could this be a big mistake? -- Historical ecology of Anolis communities -- 4 The food tangle -- 4.1 Food webs -- 4.2 St. Martin web-first pass -- Anoles and anoles -- Anoles and their prey -- Anoles and their predators -- Anoles and their parasites -- The food web as "seen" by Anoles -- 4.3 St. Martin web-second pass -- The food web as "seen" by many -- Qualitative properties -- Quantitative properties -- 4.4 Puerto Rico -- 4.5 Discussion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.

The author of this treatise uses the Anolis lizard to demonstrate the concept of ecology models - how ecological context supplies the natural selection that drives evolution and how evolutionary change among species in turn affects their ecological station.

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