Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology
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Adaptive strategies
Batesian mimicry
Behavioral ecology
Behaviorism
Behavioural sciences
Biological pest control
Biomass (ecology)
Biophysics
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Cognitive ethology
Conservation biology
Directional selection
Ecological niche
Ecology
Ecotype
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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
Foraging
Genetic drift
Group selection
Habitat fragmentation
Handicap principle
Harris's hawk
Historical ecology
Hybrid (biology)
Inbreeding
Kin selection
Life history theory
Mate choice
Mating
Meta-analysis
Model organism
Natural selection
Observational study
Optimal foraging theory
Parasitism
Parental investment
Paternal care
Phenotype
Phylogenetics
Population cycle
Population ecology
Post hoc analysis
Predation
Proofreading (biology)
Psychology
Reproductive success
Reproductive suppression
Selfish herd theory
Sexual selection
Social behavior
Social evolution
Social psychology
Sociobiology
Systems ecology
Taxonomy (biology)
Territory (animal)
The Wildlife Society
Trophic cascade
Truncation selection
Wildlife management
Product details
- ISBN 9780691006536
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Lee Alan Dugatkin is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Louisville. He is the author of The Imitation Factor, Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees, and Cooperation Among Animals and the coeditor of Game Theory and Animal Behavior.
