Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology : : Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches / / ed. by Lee Alan Dugatkin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bekoff, Marc,; Boesch, Christophe,; Bond, Alan B.,; Brown, Jerram L.,; Caro, T. M.,; Connor, Richard C.,; Creel, Scott,; Dugatkin, Lee Alan,; Gerhardt, H. Carl,; Harcourt, A. H.,; Hölldobler, Bert,; Kamil, Alan C.,; Kelly, M. J.,; Milinski, Manfred,; Møller, Anders Pape,; Parker, Geoff A.,; Pierce, Naomi E.,; Reeve, Hudson Kern,; Roces, Flavio,; Rosenthal, Gil G.,; Ryan, Michael J.,; Seeley, Thomas D.,; Sherman, Paul W.,; Silk, Joan B.,; Sinervo, Barry,; Stamps, Judy,; Uetz, George W.,; Warner, Robert R.,; Westneat, David F.,; Wilkinson, Gerald S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dugatkin, Lee Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 70
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.) :; 20 halftones, 86 line illus.

A key way that behavioral ecologists develop general theories of animal behavior is by studying one species or a closely related group of species--''model systems''--over a long period. This book brings together some of the field's most respected researchers to describe why...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART I. Insect & Arachnid Model Systems
• 1. Golden Flies, Sunlit Meadows: A Tribute to the Yellow Dungfly
• 2. A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees
• 3. Peeling the Onion: Symbioses between Ants and Blue Butterflies
• 4. In Search of Unified Theories in Sociobiology: Help from Social Wasps
• 5. Genetic Consequences of Sexual Selection in Stalk-Eyed Flies
• 6. The Behavioral Ecology of Stridulatory Communication in Leaf-Cutting Ants
• 7. Understanding the Evolution of Social Behavior in Colonial Web-Building Spiders
• PART II. Fish, Amphibian, & Reptile Model Systems
• 8. Variation and Selection in Swordtails
• 9. Learning from Lizards
• 10. Acoustic Communication in Frogs and Toads
• 11. Selection in Local Neighborhoods, the Social Environment, and Ecology of Alternative Strategies
• 12. Synthesis: Environment, Mating Systems, and Life History Allocations in the Bluehead Wrasse
• 13. The Economics of Sequential Mate Choice in Sticklebacks
• PART III. Bird Model Systems
• 14. Conversing with a Bird: Studies of Mating and Parental Behavior in Red-Winged Blackbirds
• 15. The Evolution of Virtual Ecology
• 16. Wood Ducks: A Model System for Investigating Conspecific Parasitism in Cavity-Nesting Birds
• 17. The Mexican Jay as a Model System for the Study of Large Group Size and Its Social Correlates in a Territorial Bird
• 18. Sexual Selection in the Barn Swallow
• PART IV. Mammal Model Systems
• 19. Cunning Coyotes: Tireless Tricksters, Protean Predators
• 20. Bottlenose Dolphins: Social Relationships in a Big-Brained Aquatic Mammal
• 21. Bonnet Macaques: Evolutionary Perspectives on Females' Lives
• 22. Chimpanzee Hunters: Chaos or Cooperation in the Forest?
• 23. Cooperative Hunting and Sociality in African Wild Dogs, Lycaon pictus
• 24. Gorilla Socioecology: Conflict and Compromise between the Sexes
• 25. Cheetahs and Their Mating System
• Closing Thoughts
• Contributors
• Index