Behavioral ecology of tropical animals

Author(s)

• Macedo, Regina H.

Bibliographic Information

Behavioral ecology of tropical animals

edited by Regina Macedo

（Advances in the study of behavior / edited by Daniel S. Lehrman ... [et al.], v. 42）

Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2010

Other Title

Behavioral ecology of tropical animals : from ants to zebras

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by bringing together material that aggregates studies conducted on the behavior of tropical animals.Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect--full-text online from volume 30 onward.

Table of Contents

1 - Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice Constantino Macias Garcia and Alejandra Valero 2 - A Spatial Dance to the Music of Time in the Leks of Long-tailed Manakins David B. McDonald 3 - Host Use by Generalist and Specialist Brood Parasitic Cowbirds at Population and Individual Levels Maria C. de Marsico, Bettina Mahler, Manuela Chomnalez, Alejandro G. Di Giacomo and Juan C. Reboreda 4 - Dealing with Uncertainty: Flexible Reproductive Strategies in a Tropical Passerine Bird in an Unstable Ecological and Social Environment Michael S. Webster, Jordan Karubian and Hubert Schwabl 5 - Color in a Long-lived Tropical Seabird: Sexual Selection in a Life History Context Roxana Torres and Alberto Velando 6 - Intra-specific Variation in the Behavioral Ecology of a Tropical Carnivore, the Spotted Hyena Kay E. Holekamp and Stephanie M. Dloniak 7 - Ecology, Social Behavior and Conservation in Zebras Daniel I. Rubenstein 8 - Social Organization in Callithrix jacchus: Cooperation and Competition Maria Emilia Yamamoto, Arrilton Araujo, Maria Bernardete C. de Sousa and Maria de Fatima Arruda 9 - Ecological Determinants of Social Systems: Perspectives on the Functional Role of Roosting Ecology in the Social Behavior of Tent-roosting Bats Gloriana Chaverri and Thomas H. Kunz

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Details

• NCID: BB03837354
• ISBN:
  • 9780123808943
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 338 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 591.50913
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Animal behavior -- Tropics
  • LCSH : Animal ecology -- Tropics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00251762