The Ostrich Communal Nesting System

Brian C R Bertram

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• As the study of cooperative breeding systems expands, a number of key species form the examples that underpin our general understanding. The ostrich i... Lees meer

Foraging Theory:

David W Stephens, John R Krebs

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general. ... Lees meer

Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology

Marc Mangel, Colin Whitcomb Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 8
• This book describes a powerful and flexible technique for the modeling of behavior, based on evolutionary principles. The technique employs stochastic... Lees meer

Foraging Theory

David W Stephens, John R Krebs

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 6
• This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general. ... Lees meer

Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds

William A Searcy, Ken Yasukawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of ... Lees meer

Parasitoids

H Charles J Godfray

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 12
• Parasitoids lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other species of insect, and the parasitoid larvae develop by feeding on the host, causing its event... Lees meer

Social Foraging Theory

Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Thomas Caraco

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 73
• Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways ... Lees meer

Sexual Conflict

Göran Arnqvist, Locke Rowe

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 27
• The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of reproduction. The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture un... Lees meer

Mating Systems and Strategies

Stephen M Shuster, Michael J Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 26
• This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concep... Lees meer

Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects

Leigh W Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 24
• One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, P... Lees meer

Leks

Jacob Höglund, Rauno V Alatalo

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• The evolution of leks--clusters of small territories where males congregate and display in order to attract mates--is of central issue in behavioral e... Lees meer

Honeybee Ecology

Thomas D Seeley

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally publis... Lees meer

The the Evolution of Parental Care

T H Clutton-Brock

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first attempt to provide general answers to the following importa... Lees meer

Foundations of Social Evolution

Steven A Frank

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 19
• This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Ste... Lees meer

Social Evolution in Ants

Andrew F G Bourke, Nigel R Franks

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 16
• Biologists since Darwin have been intrigued and confounded by the complex issues involved in the evolution and ecology of the social behavior of insec... Lees meer

Helping Communal Breeding in Birds

J L Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of ev... Lees meer

The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a northeas... Lees meer

The Evolution of Animal Communication

William A Searcy, Stephen Nowicki

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 30
• Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of ... Lees meer

Leks

Jacob Höglund, Rauno V Alatalo

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• The evolution of leks--clusters of small territories where males congregate and display in order to attract mates--is of central issue in behavioral e... Lees meer

Reproductive Decisions

Robin Dunbar

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is... Lees meer

Parasites in Social Insects

Paul Schmid-Hempel

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 20
• This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Paul Schmid-Hempel provi... Lees meer

Hormones and Animal Social Behavior

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 28
• Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspect... Lees meer

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

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 23
• A key way that behavioral ecologists develop general theories of animal behavior is by studying one species or a closely related group of species--''m... Lees meer

Neural Networks and Animal Behavior

Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology | nr. 29
• How can we make better sense of animal behavior by using what we know about the brain? This is the first book that attempts to answer this important q... Lees meer