Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology : Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Monographs in Behavior and Ecology Ser.
Temas:
Animal behavior.
Animal ecology.
Écologie animale.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I Insect & Arachnid Model Systems
  • 1 Golden Flies, Sunlit Meadows: A Tribute to the Yellow Dungfly
  • 2 A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees
  • 3 Peeling the Onion: Symbioses between Ants and Blue Butterflies
  • 4 In Search of Unified Theories in Sociobiology: Help from Social Wasps
  • 5 Genetic Consequences of Sexual Selection in Stalk-Eyed Flies
  • 6 The Behavioral Ecology of Stridulatory Communication in Leaf-Cutting Ants
  • 7 Understanding the Evolution of Social Behavior in Colonial Web-Building Spiders
  • PART II Fish, Amphibian, & Reptile Model Systems
  • 8 Variation and Selection in Swordtails
  • 9 Learning from Lizards
  • 10 Acoustic Communication in Frogs and Toads
  • 11 Selection in Local Neighborhoods, the Social Environment, and Ecology of Alternative Strategies
  • 12 Synthesis: Environment, Mating Systems, and Life History Allocations in the Bluehead Wrasse
  • 13 The Economics of Sequential Mate Choice in Sticklebacks
  • PART III Bird Model Systems
  • 14 Conversing with a Bird: Studies of Mating and Parental Behavior in Red-Winged Blackbirds
  • 15 The Evolution of Virtual Ecology
  • 16 Wood Ducks: A Model System for Investigating Conspecific Parasitism in Cavity-Nesting Birds
  • 17 The Mexican Jay as a Model System for the Study of Large Group Size and Its Social Correlates in a Territorial Bird
  • 18 Sexual Selection in the Barn Swallow
  • PART IV Mammal Model Systems
  • 19 Cunning Coyotes: Tireless Tricksters, Protean Predators
  • 20 Bottlenose Dolphins: Social Relationships in a Big-Brained Aquatic Mammal
  • 21 Bonnet Macaques: Evolutionary Perspectives on Females' Lives
  • 22 Chimpanzee Hunters: Chaos or Cooperation in the Forest?
  • 23 Cooperative Hunting and Sociality in African Wild Dogs, Lycaon pictus
  • 24 Gorilla Socioecology: Conflict and Compromise between the Sexes
  • 25 Cheetahs and Their Mating System
  • Closing Thoughts
  • Contributors
  • Index

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