Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology (eBook)

Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches

Lee Alan Dugatkin (Herausgeber)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20724-7 (ISBN)

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A key way that behavioral ecologists develop general theories of animal behavior is by studying one species or a closely related group of species--''model systems''--over a long period. This book brings together some of the field's most respected researchers to describe why they chose their systems, how they integrate theoretical, conceptual, and empirical work, lessons for the practice of the discipline, and potential avenues of future research. Their model systems encompass a wide range of animals and behavioral issues, from dung flies to sticklebacks, dolphins to African wild dogs, from foraging to aggression, territoriality to reproductive suppression. Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology offers an unprecedented ''systems'' focus and revealing insights into the confluence of personal curiosity and scientific inquiry. It will be an invaluable text for behavioral ecology courses and a helpful overview--and a preview of coming developments--for advanced researchers. The twenty-five chapters are divided into four sections: insects and arachnids, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Geoff A. Parker, Thomas D. Seeley, Naomi Pierce, Kern Reeve, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Bert Holldobler and Flavio Roces, George W. Uetz, Michael J. Ryan and Gil Rosenthal, Judy Stamps, H. Carl Gerhardt, Barry Sinervo, Robert Warner, Manfred Milinski, David F. Westneat, Alan C. Kamil and Alan B. Bond, Paul Sherman, Jerram L. Brown, Anders Pape Moller, Marc Bekoff, Richard C. Connor, Joan B. Silk, Christopher Boesch, Scott Creel, A.H. Harcourt, and Tim Caro and M. J. Kelly.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 86 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: adaptive Radiation • adaptive strategies • Alternative mating strategy • Animal Navigation • Arachnid • Batesian mimicry • Behavioral Ecology • Behavioral plasticity • Behaviorism • Behavioural Sciences • biological pest control • Biomass (ecology) • Biophysics • By Nature • Coefficient of relationship • Cognitive ethology • comparative anatomy • conservation biology • Cooperative hunting • Directional selection • ecological niche • Ecology • ecotype • Ethology • Evolution • Evolution and the Theory of Games • evolutionary biology • evolutionary computation • evolutionary dynamics • evolutionary ecology • evolutionary game theory • Evolutionary Psychology • female • Field Experiment • Fisherian runaway • Fitness (biology) • foraging • frequency-dependent selection • genetic drift • group selection • habitat fragmentation • Handicap principle • Harris's hawk • Historical Ecology • Human Biology • Hybrid (biology) • Ichthyology • Inbreeding • kin selection • life history theory • Local adaptation • Mammal • Marine Biology • mate choice • mating • mating preferences • Meiotic drive • Mendelian Inheritance • Meta-analysis • model organism • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Natural History • Natural selection • observational study • Operational sex ratio • Optimal Foraging Theory • parasitism • Parental investment • Paternal care • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Pheromone • Philosophy of mind • Phylogenetics • Population cycle • Population Ecology • Post hoc analysis • predation • Proofreading (biology) • Psychology • Reproductive success • Reproductive suppression • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Secondary sex characteristic • Selfish herd theory • Sexual Selection • Social behavior • Social Evolution • Social Psychology • Sociobiology • species complex • Systems Ecology • Taxonomy (biology) • Territory (animal) • The Wildlife Society • trophic cascade • Truncation selection • wildlife management • Wood Duck • Worker policing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20724-0 / 0691207240
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20724-7 / 9780691207247