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Game Theory in Biology
concepts and frontiers
Av John M. McNamara, Olof Leimar
Häftad, 2020
950 kr
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The principles of game theory apply to a wide range of topics in biology. This book presents the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and provides an authoritative and up-to-date account. The focus is on concepts that are important for biologists in their attempts to explain observations. …
The Evolutionary Biology of Species
Häftad, 2019
675 kr
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'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of evolutionary biology. However the existence of species is often taken for granted, and precisely what is meant by species …
The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation
Häftad, 2000
1536 kr
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Adaptive radiation is the evolution of diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage. It can cause a single ancestral species to differentiate into an impressively vast array of species inhabiting a variety of environments. Much of life's diversity has arisen during adaptive radiations. Some of …
The Role of Chromosomal Change in Plant Evolution
Av Levin
Häftad, 2002
781 kr
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The application of new molecular technology has greatly increased our understanding of the role of chromosomal change in plant evolution. There is now a broad database on genome size variation within and among species and a wide array of nuclear and cytoplasmic genetic markers. There is a variety …
Beyond Equilibria
Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution
Inbunden, 2025
1300 kr
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Ecologists and evolutionary biologists, especially those with theoretical and mathematical leanings, have tended to dismiss historical approaches as descriptive, smacking of particularities, allowing few generalizations (or even being untestable), and even antithetical to scientific explanation. By …
Beyond Equilibria
Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution
Häftad, 2025
516 kr
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Ecologists and evolutionary biologists, especially those with theoretical and mathematical leanings, have tended to dismiss historical approaches as descriptive, smacking of particularities, allowing few generalizations (or even being untestable), and even antithetical to scientific explanation. By …
Competition Theory in Ecology
Inbunden, 2022
1523 kr
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Competition between species arises when two or more species share at least some of the same limited resources. It is likely to affect all species, as well as many higher-level aspects of community and ecosystem dynamics. Interspecific competition shares many of the same features as density …
Competition Theory in Ecology
Häftad, 2022
639 kr
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Competition between species arises when two or more species share at least some of the same limited resources. It is likely to affect all species, as well as many higher-level aspects of community and ecosystem dynamics. Interspecific competition shares many of the same features as density …
Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean
Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics
Inbunden, 1995
2451 kr
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The Anolis lizards of the Caribbean are a model group from which to study evolutionary ecology: there are more than 150 species dispersed over the islands of the Caribbean, providing innumerable comparisons of physical form and behaviour. Their evolutionary divergence corresponds in geological time …
Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges
Av Williams
Häftad, 1992
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1889 kr
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This important new volume in the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution examines the mechanism and action of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his own synthesis of modern evolutionary theory - including discussions of the gene as the unit of selection, clade selection and …
Cooperation Among Animals
An Evolutionary Perspective
Av Dugatkin
Häftad, 1997
2490 kr
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This book outlines four different categories of co-operation -- reciprocal altruism, kinship, group-selected co-operation, and by-product mutualism -- and ties them together in a single framework called the Co-operator's Dilemma. Hundreds of studies on cooperation in insects, fish, birds, and …
The Causes of Molecular Evolution
Av Gillespie
Häftad, 1994
2215 kr
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This work provides a unified theory that addresses the important problem of the origin and maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations. With modern molecular techniques, variation is found in all species, sometimes at astonishingly high levels. Yet the forces that maintain variation …
Natural Hybridization and Evolution
Av Arnold
Häftad, 1997
2948 kr
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Natural Hybridation and Evolution includes data from numerous sources that support the paradigm of natural hybridization as an important evolutionary process. The review of these data results in a challenge of the dogma that is the explicit or implicit framework used by a large proportion of …
Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology
Methods and Applications
Av Colin W. Clark, Marc Mangel
Inbunden, 2000
3681 kr
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This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modelling techniques, starting at "square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some of these applications of methodology include insect oviposition behavior, overwinter survival of birds and fish, avian …
Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology
Methods and Applications
Av Colin W. Clark, Marc Mangel
Häftad, 2000
1720 kr
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This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modelling techniques, starting at "square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some of these applications of methodology include insect oviposition behavior, overwinter survival of birds and fish, avian …
The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species
Inbunden, 2000
3589 kr
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Each plant species has its own unique passage that is affected by its gene pool, dispersal ability, interactions with competitors and pests, and the habitats and climactic conditions to which it is exposed. This book will explore plant species as dynamic entities within this passage, following the …
The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species
Häftad, 2000
1646 kr
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Each plant species has its own unique passage that is affected by its gene pool, dispersal ability, interactions with competitors and pests, and the habitats and climactic conditions to which it is exposed. This book will explore plant species as dynamic entities within this passage, following the …
Parasites and the Behavior of Animals
Av Moore
Häftad, 2002
1894 kr
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This volume presents ecological consequences and evolutionary mechanisms that may be associated with behavioral alterations in parasitized hosts. Alterations may result from natural selection favoring the host or parasite, or there may be side effects of physiological changes associated with …
Living in Groups
Inbunden, 2002
2810 kr
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Group Living is a widespread phenomenon within the animal kingdom and has attracted considerable attention in a number of different contexts. This book is focused on the unifying concepts regarding group behaviour that have been developed over the last two decades.The authors set out to discuss the …
Living in Groups
Av Jens Krause, Graeme D. Ruxton
Häftad, 2002
1536 kr
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Group Living is a widespread phenomenon within the animal kingdom and has attracted considerable attention in a number of different contexts. This book is focused on the unifying concepts regarding group behaviour that have been developed over the last two decades.The authors set out to discuss the …
Evolutionary Ecology of Birds
Häftad, 2002
1243 kr
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Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction. Why do albatrosses delay reproduction for the first 12 years of their life while zebra finches breed in their first year ? Why are fairy-wrens so sexually promiscuous while swans show lifelong monogamy? …
Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation
Av Russell Lande, Steinar Engen m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1243 kr
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All populations fluctuate stochastically, creating a risk of extinction that does not exist in deterministic models, with fundamental consequences for both pure and applied ecology. This book provides the most comprehensive introduction to stochastic population dynamics, combining classical …
The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges
Häftad, 2003
1243 kr
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No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these distributions - the structure of the geographic ranges of species. Gaston is particularly concerned with the factors that …
Animal Signals
Av Maynard Smith, Harper
Häftad, 2003
1148 kr
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Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reliable; but most are, otherwise receivers of signals would ignore them. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical studies made, but …
Evolutionary Ecology
The Trinidadian Guppy
Häftad, 2005
1243 kr
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This book celebrates the guppy's unique contribution to evolutionary ecology. Ever since Caryl Haskins described guppy populations as a 'natural experiment' because of the way predation pressure varies over a small geographical area, generations of researchers have been drawn to Trinidad to …
Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow
Av Moller
Häftad, 1994
748 kr
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An important empirical test of the theoretical predictions of sexual selection theory, this book presents a long-term field study of the monagamous barn swallow. By using information on behaviour, ecology, morphology, genetics, and evolution, the book reviews this theory and its two components: …
Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps
The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis
Av Itô
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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In this book, Itô presents data on tropical wasps which suggest that kin-selection has been overemphasized as an evolutionary explanation of sociality. He concentrates on the Vespidae (paper wasps and hornets), a group much discussed by evolutionary biologists because it exhibits all stages of …
Metapopulation Ecology
Av Hanski
Häftad, 1999
1087 kr
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Metapopulation Ecology presents a comprehensive synthesis of current research in this rapidly expanding area of population biology, from an author who is world-famous for his ground-breaking work on metapopulations. It encompasses both the essential theory of metapopulations and a wide range of …
Life History Invariants
Some Explorations of Symmetry in Evolutionary Ecology
Av Charnov
Häftad, 1993
1243 kr
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In this book, Eric Charnov uses ideas about symmetry, invariance, and scaling laws to explore aspects of population dynamics and the evolution of male and female life histories. Charnov's work is internationally known and will attract great interest among postgraduate students and researchers in …
The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Host-Parasitoid Interactions
Häftad, 2000
1041 kr
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This book examines our current understanding of the population dynamics of one kind of interaction - that between insect parasitoids and their hosts. Parasitoids are amongst the most abundant of all animals, and make up about 10% or more of metazoan species. Almost no insect species escape their …
