Oliver P. Pearson: Scientist, Statesman, Gentleman

Douglas A. Kelt, Enrique P. Lessa, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, and James L. Patton

Part 1: Ecology, Biogeography, Natural History

Growth Rates of Male California Voles During a Peak Density Year: The Chitty Effect Revisited

William Z. Lidicker

The Relative Importance of Predation, Food, and Interspecific Competition for Growth of Prairie Vole (Microtus Ochrogaster) Populations

George O. Batzli, Steven J. Harper, and Yu-teh K. Lin

The Evolution of Energetics in Birds and Mammals

Brian K. McNab

Energy Budget in Subterranean Rodents: Insights from the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)

C. Daniel Antinuchi, Roxana R. Zenuto, Facunda Luna, Ana Paula Cutrera, Paula P. Perissinotti, and Cristina Busch

Effects of Biotic Interactions on Spatial Behavior of Small Mammals in a Semiarid Community in North-Central Chile

John A. Yunger, Peter L. Meserve, and Julio R. Gutiérrez

Physiological Flexibility in Field Urine Osmolality of Rodents from Semi-Arid Chile

Francisco Bozinovic, Mauricio Lima, Leonardo D. Bacigalupe, Julio R. Gutiérrez, Mario Rosenmann, and Arturo Cortés

Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina

Richard D. Sage, Oliver P. Pearson, Javier Sanguinetti, and Anita K. Pearson

Trophic Relationships within a Highland Rodent Assemblage from Manu National Park, Cusco, Peru

Sergio Solari

Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Bolivian High Andes: An Initial Comparison of Diversity Patterns in Polylepis Woodlands1

Teresa Tarifa, James Aparicio E., and Eric Yeensens

Patterns of Small Mammal Species Richness in Mediterranean and Temperate Chile

Hernán L. Cofré, Horacio Samaniego, and Pablo A. Marquet

The Bat Fauna of Costa Rica’s Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and Its Implications for Bat Conservation

Robert M. Timm, and Deedra K. McClearn

How Well Do Protected Areas Represent the Terrestrial Mammal Fauna of South America?

Marcelo F. Tognelli

Domestication of Guinea Pigs from a Southern Peru-Northern Chile Wild Species and their Middle Pre-Columbian Mummies

Angel E. Spotorno, Germán Manríquez, Andrea Fernández L., Juan Carlos Marín, Fermín González, and Jane Wheeler

Part 2: Systematics, Taxonomy, Evolution

Resolution of Some Problematic Type Localities for Sigmodontine Rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)

Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas, Pablo Teta, Guillermo D’Elía, Sebastián Cirignoli, and Pablo E. Ortiz

The Wild Mammals of Jujuy Province, Argentina: Systematics and Distribution

M. Mónica Díaz, and Rubén M. Barquez

Systematics and Distribution of Marsupials in Argentina: A Review

David A. Flores, M. Mónica Díaz, and Rubén M. Barquez

The Ecology and Evolutionary History of Oligoryzomys Longicaudatus in Southern South America

R. Eduardo Palma, Fernando Torres-Pérez, and Dusan Boric-Bargeto

The Octodontidae Revisited

Milton H. Gallardo, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Claudio A. González, and Carolina A. Ríos

Morphological and Molecular Variation Within Little Big-Eared Bats of the Genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador

René M. Fonseca, Steven R. Hoofer, Calvin A. Porter, Chrissy A. Cline, Deidre A. Parish, Federico G. Hoffmann, and Robert J. Baker

A New Species of Thomasomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Central Bolivia

Jorge Salazar-Bravo, and Terry L. Yates

A New Species of Phyllotis (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmondontinae) from the Upper Montane Forest of the Yungas of Northwestern Argentina

J. Pablo Jayat, Guillermo D’Elía, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas, and Juan G. Namen

A Molecular Reappraisal of the Systematics of the Leaf-Eared Mice Phyllotis and their Relatives

Scott J. Steppan, O. Ramirez, Jenner Banbury, Dorothée Huchon, Víctor Pacheco, Laura I. Walker, and Angel E. Spotorno

Molecular Phylogenetics and Diversification of South American Grass Mice, Genus Akodon

Margaret F. Smith, and James L. Patton

Phylogeography of the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Pearsoni: MTDNa Variation and its Implication for Chromosomal Differentiation

Ivanna H. Tomasco, and Enrique P. Lessa

Phylogenetic Relationships of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents Using DNA Sequences from Beta Fibrinogen and Cytochrome B

Serena A. Reeder, and Robert D. Bradley

Nucleolar Activity and Distribution of Ribosomal Genes in Phyllotis Rodent Species and their Laboratory Hybrids

Laura I. Walker, and Sergio V. Flores

Ecological and Phylogenetic Significance of AFLP DNA Diversity in 4 Species of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats (Spalax) in Israel

Andrei V. Polyakov, Alex Beharav, Tamar Krugman, Aaron Avivi, and Eviatar Nevo

Interspecific Scaling and Ontogenetic Growth Patterns of the Skull in Living and Fossil Ctenomyid and Octodontid Rodents (Caviomorpha: Octodontoidea)

Aldo I. Vassallo, and Matías S. Mora