Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

23.08.2016

Englisch

9783662502358

Springer Berlin

Nein

Fritz Trillmich

707

Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2010

Taschenbuch

Animal Behaviour, Applied Ecology, Behaviour, Behavioural Variation, Cognition, Communication, Conflict, Cooperation, Ethology, Evolution, Hermaphrodite, Invertrebrates, Sexual Selection, Vertebrates, phenotype

PSAN - Neurowissenschaften PSAJ - Evolution PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre PSV - Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften

Communication and cognition.- Visual communication: evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms.- Vocal communication in social groups.- Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory.- Honeybee cognition.- Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose example.- Conflict and cooperation.- Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects.- Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection.- Cooperation between unrelated individuals – a game theoretic approach.- Group decision-making in animal societies.- Parental care: adjustments to conflict and cooperation.- Sex and reproduction.- The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory.- Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites.- Extra-pair behaviour.- Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation.- Monogynous mating strategies in spiders.- Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones.- Behavioural variation.- The social modulation of behavioural development.- Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes.- Animal personality and behavioural syndromes.- Social learning and culture in animals.- Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability.

235 mm

15.5 cm