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Biological invasions and animal behaviour /
This book provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of animal behaviour in the success and impact of biological invasions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Behaviour and the Invasion Process; 2 The Role of Behavioural Variation across Different Stages of the Introduction Process; 3 Invading New Environments: A Mechanistic Framework Linking Motor Diversity and Cognition to Establishment Success; 4 Invader Endocrinology: The Regulation of Behaviour in Pesky Phenotypes; 5 Life History, Behaviour and Invasion Success; 6 Behaviour on Invasion Fronts, and the Behaviour of Invasion Fronts.
- 7 The Role of Dispersal Behaviour and Personality in Post-establishment SpreadPart II Behavioural Interactions Between Invaders and Native Species; 8 Invasive Plants as Novel Food Resources, the Pollinators' Perspective; 9 In the Light of Introduction: Importance of Introduced Populations for the Study of Brood Parasite-Host Coevolution; 10 Flight Behaviour of an Introduced Parasite Affects its Galápagos Island Hosts: Philornis downsi and Darwin's Finches; 11 Eat or be Eaten: Invasion and Predation in Aquatic Ecosystems; 12 Evolutionary Novelty and the Behaviour of Introduced Predators.
- Part III Case Studies13 Behaviours Mediating Ant Invasions; 14 Invasions by Mosquitoes: The Roles of Behaviour Across the Life Cycle; 15 How Behaviour Contributes to the Success of an Invasive Poeciliid Fish: The Trinidadian Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) as a Model Species; 16 How Behaviour Has Helped Invasive Crayfish to Conquer Freshwater Ecosystems; 17 Behaviours of Pacific Lionfish Facilitate Invasion of the Atlantic; 18 Wildlife Trade, Behaviour and Avian Invasions; Index.