Subject Index
Abrasion 21,23
Acclimation 31,35-40
Activity
daily 41-42
locomotory 19,21,50-51
patterns 41-48,84,94
Adaptation
ancestral 22,59,119
apotypic 62,119
Aestivation 69-70,120-121123
Age at maturity 60, 62, 69
Age distribution 63, 71
Aggregation 7,13,43,113
Anhydrobiosis 25-27
Asexual reproduction see Parthenogenesis
Assimilation coefficient 52, 53
Batha see Phrygana
Breeding
period 42,47-48
success 66-68,73-74
Brood protection 67-68,120
Caloric content 52
Chaparral see Maquis
Climate 1-2
Clutch size 60,67-68,74,124
Coastal sages see Phrygana
Coevolution 45,63
Colonisation 103, 106, 122
Community structure 7-13,91-103
Compensation
metabolic 34-36,39,95, 123
Conformism 120-124
Conservatism 120-124
Constraints
evolutionary 59,121,124
physiological 59,110,119,121
Convergence
ecological 9
hypothesis 11
Cost
of maintenance 34,36,39,52-53,120,124
ontogenetic 54
Cryptobiosis 25
Degradation 4,9-13,117
Demography
characteristics 59-71,88-90, 120-124
parameters 50,54-57,66,87,111-115
vector 87
Density
dependence 14,113-115,118-119,121-124
dependent foraging 112-115
dependent movement 115
Diapause 69,119,123
Disasters 86
Distribution
of abundance 7-8,107-110
geographical 7-11,91
horizontal 97
of rainfall 1
of reproductive effort 65-67
of resources 43,63,117
vertical 96-97
Dormancy 60,69,72-73
Drought
avoidance 94,97,122
hypothesis 12
index of 1
resistance to 18,72,73,94
response to 18,24-27,85,96-97
Ecdysis 19-24,110,113
Ecological time 79-84
Ecomorphosis 19,25-27
Effort
Egg
reproductive 61,65-68,82-83,103,120,
122
chamber 67
investment in 60, 68, 71