Transmission of Echinococcus spp. in life cycles that involve mainly wildlife is well
recognized for those species with small mammals as intermediate hosts (eg E …

Simple Summary The family Canidae, composed of dog-like species such as wolves, foxes,
and jackals, demonstrates a significant variety in reproductive biology. In general, female …

Across large clades, two problems are generally encountered in the estimation of species-
level phylogenies:(a) the number of taxa involved is generally so high that computation …

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 5: Mammals is the fifth of five second-
edition volumes representing a comprehensive and integrated overview of hormones and …

Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-
geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence play an important role in the global …

The 'third pole'of the world is a fitting metaphor for the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau, in
allusion to its vast frozen terrain, rivalling the Arctic and Antarctic, at high altitude but low …

The association between phenotype and ecology is essential for understanding the
environmental drivers of morphological evolution. This is a particularly challenging task …

The role of so-called pest species in alternatively causing, or responding to, changing
rangeland conditions remains contentious. Most scientists have concluded that high …

Abstract The Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata) is generally acknowledged to be a specialist
forager on its preferred prey, the burrowing lagomorph plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) …

It is with great pleasure that I write this foreword to The Status of Nepal's Mammals. This
landmark publication gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive and detailed …