Animal contests / edited by Ian C.W. Hardy, University of Nottingham, UK, Mark Briffa, Plymouth University, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardy, Ian C. W. (Ian Charles Wrighton), 1965- editor.

Briffa, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition (Biology).

Physical Description:

xxv, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1. Introduction to animal contests / Mark Briffa, Ian C.W. Hardy

2. Dyadic contests: modelling fights between two individuals / Hanna Kokko

3. Models of group or multi-party contests / Tom N. Sherratt, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons

4. Analysis of animal contest data / Mark Briffa, Ian C.W. Hardy, Martin P. Gammell, Dómhnall J. Jennings, David D. Clarke, Marlène Goubault

5. Contests in crustaceans: assessments, decisions and their underlying mechanisms / Mark Briffa

6. Aggression in spiders / Robert W. Elwood, John Prenter

7. Contest behaviour in butterflies: fighting without weapons / Darrell J. Kemp

8. Hymenopteran contests and agonistic behaviour / Ian C.W. Hardy, Marlène Goubault, Tim P. Batchelor

9. Horns and the role of development in the evolution of beetle contests / Emilie C. Snell-Rood, Armin P. Moczek

10. Contest behaviour in fishes / Ryan L. Earley, Yuying Hsu

11. Contests in amphibians / Miranda L. Dyson, Michael S. Reichert, Tim R. Halliday

12. Lizards and other reptiles as model systems for the study of contest behaviour / Troy A. Baird

13. Bird contests: from hatching to fertilisation / Sarah R. Pryke

14. Contest behaviour in ungulates / Dómhnall J. Jennings, Martin P. Gammell

15. Human contests: evolutionary theory and the analysis of interstate war / Scott A. Field, Mark Briffa

16. Prospects for animal contests / Mark Briffa, Ian C.W. Hardy, Sophie L. Mowles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521887100

9780521887106

OCLC:

829055734

Publisher Number:

99954773563