Evolutionary behavioral ecology / / edited by David F. Westneat, Charles W. Fox

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (660 p.)
• Disciplina: 591.5
• Soggetto topico: Animal behavior - Evolution; Animal ecology
• Altri autori: WestneatDavid F FoxCharles W
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Section I. Foundations; 1. Ingenious Ideas: The History of Behavioral Ecology; 2. Adaptation; Box 2.1. Optimality Models; 3. Behavioral Concepts of Selection; 4. What Is Fitness, and How Do We Measure It?; 5. The Genetic Basis of Behavior; Box 5.1. A Brief Introduction to Quantitative Genetics; Box 5.2. Diversity of Sex-Determining Mechanisms; 6. Behavior as Phenotypic Plasticity; Box 6.1. Contrasting Quantitative Genetic Models for the Evolution of Plasticity; Box 6.2. Contrasting Statistical Methods for Studying Phenotypic Plasticity ; 7. Evolution of Behavior: Phylogeny and the Origin of Present-Day DiversityBox 7.1. Comparative Methods; Section II. Decision Making; 8. Decision Theory; Box 8.1. A DSV Model of Clam Life History Decisions; 9. Information Use and Sensory Ecology; Box 9.1. How Sensory Systems Work: Vision as an Example; 10. Information Processing: The Ecology and Evolution of Cognitive Abilities; Box 10.1. Testing Cognition in the Field; Section III. Ecology of Behavior; 11. Foraging Theory; Box 11.1. Allocating Eggs among Multiple Hosts by Parasitic Insects; 12. Managing Risk: The Perils of Uncertainty ; Box 12.1. Fitness Consequences and Attitudes toward RiskBox 12.2. The Asset Protection Principle; 13. Predation Risk and Behavioral Life History; Section IV. Social Behavior; 14. Interacting Phenotypes and Indirect Genetic Effects; Box 14.1. Social Selection; Box 14.2. An Interacting Phenotypes Perspective on Kin Selection; Box 14.3. Social Effects and the Response to Group Selection; 15. Contest Behavior; Box 15.1. The Hawk-Dove Game and Evolutionary Stable Strategies; 16. Signaling; Box 16.1. Game Trees; 17. Behavior in Groups; Box 17.1. Mechanisms of Dominance Hierarchy Formation ; Box 17.2. Reproductive Skew18. Altruism and Cooperation; Box 18.1. Use and Abuse of Altruism; Box 18.2. Hamilton's Rule; Box 18.3. How to Analyze a Kin Selection Model; 19. Evolution of Complex Societies; Box 19.1. Haplodiploid Pedigree and Relatedness; Section V. Reproductive Behavior; 20. Sexual Selection; Box 20.1. Anisogamy and the Parasitic Nature of the Origins of Sperm; Box 20.2. Sex Allocation Theory and the Fisher Condition; 21. Sexual Selection in External Fertilizers; 22. Postcopulatory Sexual Selection; Box 22.1. Multiple Mating by Females ; Box 22.2. Ejaculate Expenditure and Allocation Models23. Sexual Conflict; Box 23.1. Key Lessons from Sexual Conflict Theory; Box 23.2. Sexual Conflict as Social Selection: Insights from Selection Theory; Box 23.3. Sexual Conflict Can Fuel Evolutionary Change Leading to Reproductive Isolation; 24. Mate Choice; Box 24.1. Sensory Bias; 25. Alternative Mating Strategies; 26. Parental Care; Box 26.1. Parental Care and Life History; Box 26.2. Parent-Offspring Conflict; Box 26.3. Adaptive Offspring Sex Ratios; Section VI. Extensions; 27. Behavioral Ecology and Speciation ; Box 27.1. Habitat Preferences and the Formation of New Species
• Sommario/riassunto: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used as a text for graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight into the controversies and themes shaping the continuing development of the field. Essays on adaptation, selection, fitness, genetics, plasticity, and phylogeny as they pertain
• Titolo autorizzato: Evolutionary behavioral ecology
• ISBN: 0-19-533192-3; 0-19-971578-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790506203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II