1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910448855503321

Autore

Ricca, Laura

Titolo

Dalla città ideale alla città virtuale : estetica urbana in Cina e in Giappone / Laura Ricca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Carocci, 2014

ISBN

978-88-430-7556-0

Descrizione fisica

103 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Collana

Biblioteca di testi e studi ; 970

Disciplina

720.951

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

Collez. 1587 (970)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782540303321

Autore

Harcourt A. H (Alexander H.)

Titolo

Gorilla society [[electronic resource] ] : conflict, compromise, and cooperation between the sexes / / Alexander H. Harcourt and Kelly J. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-95708-9

0-226-31604-1

9786611957087

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StewartKelly J. <1951->

Disciplina

599.884

Soggetti

Gorilla - Behavior

Gorilla - Ecology

Social behavior in animals

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 (p. 377-439) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2. PRIMATE SOCIOECOLOGY: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 3. INTRODUCING GORILLAS: SOME BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER 4. GORILLA ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 5. FEMALE STRATEGIES AND SOCIETY: FOOD AND GROUPING -- CHAPTER 6. FEMALE STRATEGIES: MALE INFLUENCES ON FEMALES' COMPETITION, COOPERATION, AND GROUPING -- CHAPTER 7. FEMALE STRATEGIES: MALE INFLUENCES; JOINING A PROTECTIVE MALE -- CHAPTER 8. FEMALE STRATEGIES: MALE INFLUENCES; EMIGRATION AND CHOICE OF MALES -- CHAPTER 9. FEMALE STRATEGIES: CONFLICT, COMPROMISE, AND COOPERATION BETWEEN THE SEXES -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 10. MALE STRATEGIES AND SOCIETY: INFLUENCES OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND OF FEMALES -- CHAPTER 11. MALE MATING STRATEGIES AND GORILLA SOCIETY -- CHAPTER 12. MALE STRATEGIES AND THE NATURE OF SOCIETY: CONFLICT, COMPROMISE, AND COOPERATION BETWEEN THE SEXES -- CHAPTER 13. GORILLA AND PRIMATE SOCIOECOLOGY: THE FUTURE -- CHAPTER 14. SOCIOECOLOGY AND GORILLA



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Sommario/riassunto

Societies develop as a result of the interactions of individuals as they compete and cooperate with one another in the evolutionary struggle to survive and reproduce successfully. Gorilla society is arranged according to these different and sometimes conflicting evolutionary goals of the sexes. In seeking to understand why gorilla society exists as it does, Alexander H. Harcourt and Kelly J. Stewart bring together extensive data on wild gorillas, collected over decades by numerous researchers working in diverse habitats across Africa, to illustrate how the social system of gorilla

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959538903321

Autore

Spicer John I

Titolo

Physiological diversity and its eeological implications / / John I. Spicer, Kevin J. Gaston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Science

Abingdon, Oxon, : Marston Book Services, 1999

ISBN

9786612117640

9781282117648

1282117645

9781444311426

1444311425

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GastonKevin J

Disciplina

591.7/8

Soggetti

Ecophysiology

Ecology

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

Physiological Diversity and its Ecological Implications; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Physiological diversity; 1.2 Antecedents; 1.3 Links to ecology; 1.4 This book; Chapter 2: Growing, Developing and Ageing; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Old and new agendas for ontogeny; 2.1.2 Replicating the individual; 2.2 Origins of within-



individual variation; 2.3 Genetically determined patterns in within-individual variation; 2.3.1 Anatomical complexity; 2.3.2 Changes in physiological tolerance; 2.3.3 Big individuals writ small?

2.3.4 Must morphological development be accompanied by physiological change?2.4 Environmental modification of the physiological itinerary; 2.4.1 Acclimatization and acclimation; 2.4.2 Induction of physiological traits; 2.4.3 Critical windows; 2.4.4 It's all in the timing: physiological heterochrony; 2.4.5 Disease and senescence; 2.5 The importance of behaviour; 2.6 The link to fitness; 2.7 The uniqueness of the individual; Chapter 3: Comparing Neighbours; 3.1 Constrained and unconstrained variation; 3.2 Frequency distributions of between-individual variation; 3.2.1 Constrained variation

3.2.2 Unconstrained variation3.3 Experimentally altering between-individual variation; 3.4 Changes in between-individual variation in the field; 3.4.1 Differential mortality and extreme events; 3.4.2 Population persistence; 3.4.3 Normal environmental variation, differential mortality and physiological adjustment; 3.5 Sources of between-individual variation; 3.5.1 Experimental variation and developmental noise; 3.5.2 Individual circumstances; 3.5.3 Genetic differentiation; 3.6 The link to fitness?; 3.7 Concluding discussion and summary; Chapter 4: Population Differences; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 The roots of population differences4.2.1 Things are not always as they appear; 4.2.2 Acclimatization and reversible non-genetic differences; 4.2.3 Irreversible non-genetic differences; 4.2.4 Genetic differentiation; 4.2.5 Demographic differences; 4.3 Types of population similarity; 4.3.1 Similarity in environmental conditions and absence of capacity for local acclimatization; 4.3.2 Gene flow; 4.4 Spatial patterns in between-population variation; 4.4.1 Latitude; 4.4.2 Altitude; 4.4.3 Depth; 4.5 Geographic ranges; 4.5.1 Climate and occurrence

4.5.2 Why don't species have larger geographical ranges?4.5.3 Do species escape climatic constraints on their ranges?; 4.6 The link to fitness; 4.7 Concluding discussion and summary; Chapter 5: Species Contrasts; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Sources of between-species variation; 5.2.1 Measurement and summary statistics; 5.2.2 Phylogenetic relatedness; 5.2.3 Species circumstances; 5.2.4 Genetic differentiation; 5.2.5 Summary; 5.3 Allometry; 5.4 Spatial patterns in between-species variation; 5.4.1 Latitude; 5.4.2 Altitude; 5.4.3 Depth; 5.5 Rare and common species

5.6 Changing species' distributions and physiology

Sommario/riassunto

Ecologists have always believed, at least to a certain extent, that physiological mechanisms serve to underpin ecological patterns. However, their importance has traditionally been at best underestimated and at worst ignored, with physiological variation being dismissed as either an irrelevance or as random noise/error. Spicer and Gaston make a convincing argument that the precise physiology does matter! In contrast to previous works which have attempted to integrate ecology and physiology, Physiological Diversity adopts a completely different and more controversial approach in tackling