開課班級Class: 授課教師Teacher: 學分數Credits:
碩野保一A 孫敬閔 3
課程大綱Course Description:
在大多數熱帶和亞熱帶環境中,螞蟻和白蟻占了極大的生物量組成比例,這些社會性昆蟲是許多哺乳動物捕食的重要的食物資源,左右其生活史和演化。食蟻性(Myrmecophagy)是一種超過200種哺乳動物所使用的覓食策略,在這些物種中,近46%的物種會捕食螞蟻和白蟻,其中12%是專性食蟻類的捕食者,蟻類占其食物超過90%。對於食蟻哺乳動物的覓食生態的了解,有助於理解蟻類和其捕食者在生態系統中的交互作用,也有助於發展瀕危食蟻類物種的保育策略。
English Outline:
Ants and termites are highly aggregated and have relatively stable populations in most tropical and subtropical environments. These social insects, therefore, account for a significant portion of invertebrates preyed upon by many mammals. Myrmecophagy, or ant- and termite-eating, is a foraging strategy used by over 200 mammal species. Of that number, nearly 46% consume both ants and termites and 12% are obligate myrmecophagous predators, consuming > 90% ants or termites by volume. Detailed knowledge of the feeding ecology for myrmecophagous mammals is critical towards understanding their impacts on ants and termite populations as well as prey-predator relationships.
本科目教學目標Course Objectives:
1. 了解螞蟻及白蟻在生態系重要性和角色。
2. 理解食蟻哺乳類在陸域生態系的多樣性。
3. 探討食蟻哺乳類的覓食策略和蟻類群聚週期的關係。
4. 分析食蟻哺乳類保育策略。
教學型態Teaching Models: 成績考核方式Grading:
課堂教學+小組討論  平時成績General Performance:50%
期中考Midterm Exam:%
期末考Final exam:40%
其它 Other:出缺勤: 10%
參考書目Textbooks/References:
1. Redford, K. H. 1987. Ants and termites as food. Patterns of mammalian myrmecophagy. In H. H. Genoways (Eds.), Current mammalogy (pp. 349–399). New York: Plenum Press.
2. Pangolin: Science, Society and Conservation (Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes) By D.W. Challender. 2020. Academic Press Inc.
3. 食蟻哺乳類研究相關國外期刊。
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課程匯入時間Import Time:2025-01-20 08:42:26
最後更新時間Last Modified:2025-04-14 20:58:29,更新人modified by:孫敬閔