An introduction to behavioural ecology
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An introduction to behavioural ecology
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987
2nd ed
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science研究室
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Bibliography: p. 355-376
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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