An introduction to behavioural ecology
著者
書誌事項
An introduction to behavioural ecology
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987
2nd ed
大学図書館所蔵 全39件
注記
Bibliography: p. 355-376
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is about the survival value of behaviour. It describes how ecological selection pressures associated with acquiring resources and reproducing, influence behaviour. The book uses up-to-date examples to show precise hypotheses may be formulated and tested experimentally. Theoretical ideas and empirical results are closely integrated throughout and in this new edition, the material which was covered in one chapter has been divided into three parts to clarify and simplify the presentation. Another new feature of the second edition is the inclusion, at the end of each chapter, of a number of topics for discussion. The book is suitable for second and third year undergraduate courses in animal behaviour or behavioural ecology.
目次
- Natural selection, ecology and behaviour
- Testing hypotheses in behavioural ecology
- Economic decisions and the individual
- Predators versus prey: evolutionary arms races
- Competing for resources
- Living in groups
- Fighting and assessment
- Sexual conflict and sexual selection
- Parental care and mating systems
- Alternative strategies
- On selfishness and altruism
- Co-operation and helping in birds, mammals and fish
- Co-operation and altruism in the social insects
- The design of signals - ecology and evolution.
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