Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Animals /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Macedo, Regina H. (Regina Helena), 1958- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, 2010.
• Έκδοση: First edition.
• Σειρά: Advances in the study of behavior ; v. 42.
• Θέματα: Animal behavior > Tropics.; Animal ecology > Tropics.; Animal behavior.; Animal ecology.; Animals > Tropics.; Science.; Zoology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.; Animals.; Tropics.; Electronic books.

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 to...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choic
• Chapter 2: A Spatial Dance to the Music of Time in the Leks of Long-Tailed Manakins
• Chapter 3: Host Use by Generalist and Specialist Brood-Parasitic Cowbirds at Population and Individual Levels
• Chapter 4: Dealing with Uncertainty: Flexible ReproductiveStrategies by a Tropical Passerine Bird in anUnstable Ecological and Social Environment
• Chapter 5: Color in a Long-Lived Tropical Seabird
• Chapter 6: Intraspecific Variation in the Behavioral Ecology of a Tropical Carnivore, the Spotted Hyena
• Chapter 7: Ecology, Social Behavior, and Conservation in Zebras
• Chapter 8: Social Organization in Callithrix jacchus
• Chapter 9: Ecological Determinants of Social Systems: Perspectives on the Functional Role of RoostingEcology in the Social Behavior of Tent-Roosting Bats.