1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465255703321

Autore

Sumpter David <1973->

Titolo

Collective animal behavior [[electronic resource] /] / David J. T. Sumpter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4008-3710-3

1-282-82116-4

9786612821165

0-691-12963-0

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Public Square

Disciplina

591.56

Soggetti

Social behavior in animals

Collective behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Coming Together -- Chapter 3. Information Transfer -- Chapter 4. Making Decisions -- Chapter 5. Moving Together -- Chapter 6. Synchronization -- Chapter 7. Structures -- Chapter 8. Regulation -- Chapter 9. Complicated Interactions -- Chapter 10. The Evolution of Co-operation -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across a range of species. Providing a synthesis of mathematical modeling, theoretical biology, and experimental work, David Sumpter investigates how animals move and arrive together, how they transfer information, how they make decisions and synchronize their activities, and how they build collective structures. Sumpter constructs a unified appreciation of how different group-living species coordinate their behaviors and why natural selection has produced these groups. For the first time, the



book combines traditional approaches to behavioral ecology with ideas about self-organization and complex systems from physics and mathematics. Sumpter offers a guide for working with key models in this area along with case studies of their application, and he shows how ideas about animal behavior can be applied to understanding human social behavior. Containing a wealth of accessible examples as well as qualitative and quantitative features, Collective Animal Behavior will interest behavioral ecologists and all scientists studying complex systems.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782726403321

Titolo

Calderón and the Baroque tradition / / editors, Kurt Levy, Jesus Ara, and Gethin Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 1985

ISBN

1-55458-516-3

1-282-16701-4

9786613810083

0-88920-733-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 158 pages) : music

Altri autori (Persone)

LevyKurt L

AraJesús Antonio <1934->

HughesGethin <1939->

Disciplina

862/.3

Soggetti

Spanish literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English and Spanish.

"Proceedings of an international symposium on Calderón and the Baroque tradition"--T.p., verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""8. El arte de poner ante los ojos en el auto La segunda esposa o triunfar muriendo""""9. The Use of Costume in Some Plays of Calderón""; ""10. Calderón y la pintura""; ""IV. INDIVIDUAL PLAYS""; ""11. Iterative Thematic Imagery in Calderón's El mágico prodigioso""; ""12. Calderón's Eco y Narciso and the Split Personality""; ""13. El



""optimismo"" de Ni Amor se libra de amor""; ""Index"";