Biology and Conservation of Musteloids

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Contents
List of contributors
Part I: Reviews
	1 Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild musteloids
	2 The evolutionary history and molecular systematics of the Musteloidea
	3 Form and function of the musteloids
	4 The population dynamics of bite-sized predators: prey dependence, territoriality, and mobility
	5 Communication amongst the musteloids: signs, signals, and cues
	6 Musteloid sociality: the grass-roots of society
	7 People and wild musteloids
	8 Stink or swim: techniques to meet the challenges for the study and conservation of small critters that hide, swim, or climb, and may otherwise make themselves unpleasant
	9 Musteloid diseases: implications for conservation and species management
Part II: Case studies
	10 Small mustelids in New Zealand: invasion ecology in a different world
	11 The fisher as a model organism
	12 Quantifying loss and degradation of former American marten habitat due to the impacts of forestry operations and associated road networks in northern Idaho, USA
	13 Asian badgers—the same, only different: how diversity among badger societies informs socio-ecological theory and challenges conservation
	14 The Bornean carnivore community: lessons from a little-known guild
	15 Evolution, natural history, and conservation of black-footed ferrets
	16 Control of an invasive species: the American mink in Great Britain
	17 European mink: restoration attempts for a species on the brink of extinction
	18 Social ethology of the wolverine
	19 Ecotypic variation affects the conservation of North American badgers endangered along their northern range extent
	20 European badgers and the control of bovine tuberculosis in the United Kingdom
	21 Meline mastery of meteorological mayhem: the effects of climate changeability on European badger population dynamics
	22 Giant otters: using knowledge of life history for conservation
	23 Advances in understanding the physiology, behaviour, and ecology of sea otters
	24 Competition and coexistence in sympatric skunks
	25 Range decline and landscape ecology of the eastern spotted skunk
	26 Kinkajou: the tree-top specialist
	27 On the mortality and management of a ubiquitous musteloid: the common raccoon
	28 Causes and consequences of coati sociality
	29 Conservation genetics of red pandas in the wild
Part III: Synthesis
	30 Beneath the umbrella: conservation out of the limelight
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