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Parasitoids
Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
Häftad, 1994
1032 kr
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Parasitoids lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other species of insect, and the parasitoid larvae develop by feeding on the host, causing its eventual death. Known for a long time to applied biologists for their importance in regulating the population densities of economic pests, parasitoids …
Sexual Selection
Häftad, 1994
793 kr
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Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they may reduce male survival? Such questions …
Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology
Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches
Häftad, 2001
947 kr
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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, …
Levels of Selection in Evolution
Häftad, 1999
844 kr
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Ever since the groundbreaking work of George Williams, W. D. Hamilton, and Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologists have recognized that natural selection generally does not operate for the good of the group, but rather for the good of lower-level units such as the individual, the cell, even the …
Female Control
Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice
Häftad, 1996
1688 kr
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A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has compiled an impressive array of research on the ability of females to shape the outcome of mating. He describes studies …
African Wild Dog
Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
Av Scott Creel, Nancy Marusha Creel
Häftad, 2002
1032 kr
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With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in …
Evolution of Parental Care
Häftad, 1991
1828 kr
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Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species? Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only …
Sex, Color, and Mate Choice in Guppies
Häftad, 1997
853 kr
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The Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is well known to biologists and home aquarium enthusiasts alike. Scientists have studied guppies for most of the twentieth century. Some of the most intensive recent research has been conducted by behavioral ecologists, who have found that the guppy …
Social Evolution in Ants
Av Andrew F.G. Bourke, Nigel R. Franks
Häftad, 1995
1407 kr
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Biologists since Darwin have been intrigued and confounded by the complex issues involved in the evolution and ecology of the social behavior of insects. The self-sacrifice of sterile workers in ant colonies has been particularly difficult for evolutionary biologists to explain. In this important …
Social Foraging Theory
Av Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Thomas Caraco
Häftad, 2000
947 kr
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Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups--has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by providing both a …
Mating Systems and Strategies
Av Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade
Häftad, 2003
1595 kr
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This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the …
Parasites in Social Insects
Häftad, 1998
1032 kr
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This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Paul Schmid-Hempel provides an overview of the existing knowledge of parasites in social insects. Current ideas are evaluated using a broad database, and the role of …
Foundations of Social Evolution
Häftad, 1998
844 kr
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This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank tackles the problem with a highly original combination of approaches: game theory, classical models of natural selection, quantitative …
Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects
Häftad, 2001
989 kr
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One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual selection continues after mating through sperm competition. Because females often mate with multiple males before …
Evolution of Animal Communication
Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems
Av William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki
Häftad, 2005
844 kr
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Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other animals--sometimes dishonest? That's what William Searcy and Stephen Nowicki ask in The Evolution of Animal …
Foraging Theory
Av David W. Stephens, John R. Krebs
Häftad, 1987
989 kr
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This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general. Organizing and introducing the main research themes in economic analyses of animal feeding behavior, the authors analyze the empirical evidence …
Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology
Av Marc Mangel, Colin Whitcomb Clark
Häftad, 1989
793 kr
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This book describes a powerful and flexible technique for the modeling of behavior, based on evolutionary principles. The technique employs stochastic dynamic programming and permits the analysis of behavioral adaptations wherein organisms respond to changes in their environment and in their own …
Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
Häftad, 2005
844 kr
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Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspected social and mating systems. The evolution of this behavior is increasingly well understood. At the same time, laboratory scientists have made …
Neural Networks and Animal Behavior
Av Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda
Häftad, 2005
844 kr
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How can we make better sense of animal behavior by using what we know about the brain? This is the first book that attempts to answer this important question by applying neural network theory. Scientists create Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to make models of the brain. These networks mimic the …
Sexual Conflict
Häftad, 2005
801 kr
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The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of reproduction. The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture undertaken by two individuals, aimed at replicating their common genome, is being challenged by a growing body of evidence showing that the …
Honeybee Ecology
A Study of Adaptation in Social Life
Häftad, 2025
306 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Honeybee Democracy, a classic account of the ecological factors that shape the social lives of honeybeesFor many years, research on honeybee social life dealt primarily with the physiological processes underlying the social system of the bee rather than the ecological …
Honeybee Ecology
A Study of Adaptation in Social Life
Inbunden, 2025
1688 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Honeybee Democracy, a classic account of the ecological factors that shape the social lives of honeybeesFor many years, research on honeybee social life dealt primarily with the physiological processes underlying the social system of the bee rather than the ecological …
Ostrich Communal Nesting System
Häftad, 2014
852 kr
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As the study of cooperative breeding systems expands, a number of key species form the examples that underpin our general understanding. The ostrich is increasingly becoming such a textbook species, on the basis of the results obtained in Brian Bertram's study of vigilance and egg discrimination in …
Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat
Av Paul W. Sherman, Jennifer U.M. Jarvis m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1075 kr
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This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a northeast African mammal unique for its physical characteristics and eusociality. Nearly blind and virtually hairless, naked mole-rats inhabit large …
Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
Ecology and Evolution
Av J. L. Brown
Häftad, 2014
1391 kr
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An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical …
Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds
Av William A. Searcy, Ken Yasukawa
Inbunden, 2016
3100 kr
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The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species. Polygyny is a mating system in which individual males form long-term mating relationships with more than one female at a …
Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
Ecology and Evolution
Av J. L. Brown
Inbunden, 2016
3139 kr
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An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical …
Reproductive Decisions
An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates. His work illustrates the value of an approach that views social behavior as being ultimately concerned …
Five New World Primates
A Study in Comparative Ecology
Inbunden, 2016
2430 kr
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Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey. Notwithstanding their common diet, they differ widely in group size, social system, ranging patterns, and degree of …
Honeybee Ecology
A Study of Adaptation in Social Life
Häftad, 2014
368 kr
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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the …
