Model systems in behavioral ecology : integrating conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches / Lee Alan Dugatkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dugatkin, Lee Alan, Editor.

Series:

Monographs in behavior and ecology.

Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Animal ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 551 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 they chose their systems, how they integrate theoretical, conceptual, and empirical work, lessons for the practice of the discipline, and potential avenues of future research. Their model systems encompass a wide range of animals and behavioral issues, from dung flies to sticklebacks, dolphins to African wild dogs, from foraging to aggression, territoriality to reproductive suppression. Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology offers an unprecedented ''systems'' focus and revealing insights into the confluence of personal curiosity and scientific inquiry. It will be an invaluable text for behavioral ecology courses and a helpful overview--and a preview of coming developments--for advanced researchers. The twenty-five chapters are divided into four sections: insects and arachnids, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Geoff A. Parker, Thomas D. Seeley, Naomi Pierce, Kern Reeve, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Bert Hölldobler and Flavio Roces, George W. Uetz, Michael J. Ryan and Gil Rosenthal, Judy Stamps, H. Carl Gerhardt, Barry Sinervo, Robert Warner, Manfred Milinski, David F. Westneat, Alan C. Kamil and Alan B. Bond, Paul Sherman, Jerram L. Brown, Anders Pape Møller, Marc Bekoff, Richard C. Connor, Joan B. Silk, Christopher Boesch, Scott Creel, A.H. Harcourt, and Tim Caro and M. J. Kelly.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Dugatkin, Lee Alan

Acknowledgments

PART I. Insect & Arachnid Model Systems

1. Golden Flies, Sunlit Meadows: A Tribute to the Yellow Dungfly / Parker, Geoff A.

2. A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees / Seeley, Thomas D.

3. Peeling the Onion: Symbioses between Ants and Blue Butterflies / Pierce, Naomi E.

4. In Search of Unified Theories in Sociobiology: Help from Social Wasps / Reeve, Hudson Kern

5. Genetic Consequences of Sexual Selection in Stalk-Eyed Flies / Wilkinson, Gerald S.

6. The Behavioral Ecology of Stridulatory Communication in Leaf-Cutting Ants / Hölldobler, Bert / Roces, Flavio

7. Understanding the Evolution of Social Behavior in Colonial Web-Building Spiders / Uetz, George W.

PART II. Fish, Amphibian, & Reptile Model Systems

8. Variation and Selection in Swordtails / Ryan, Michael J. / Rosenthal, Gil G.

9. Learning from Lizards / Stamps, Judy

10. Acoustic Communication in Frogs and Toads / Gerhardt, H. Carl

11. Selection in Local Neighborhoods, the Social Environment, and Ecology of Alternative Strategies / Sinervo, Barry

12. Synthesis: Environment, Mating Systems, and Life History Allocations in the Bluehead Wrasse / Warner, Robert R.

13. The Economics of Sequential Mate Choice in Sticklebacks / Milinski, Manfred

PART III. Bird Model Systems

14. Conversing with a Bird: Studies of Mating and Parental Behavior in Red-Winged Blackbirds / Westneat, David F.

15. The Evolution of Virtual Ecology / Kamil, Alan C. / Bond, Alan B.

16. Wood Ducks: A Model System for Investigating Conspecific Parasitism in Cavity-Nesting Birds / Sherman, Paul W.

17. The Mexican Jay as a Model System for the Study of Large Group Size and Its Social Correlates in a Territorial Bird / Brown, Jerram L.

18. Sexual Selection in the Barn Swallow / Møller, Anders Pape

PART IV. Mammal Model Systems

19. Cunning Coyotes: Tireless Tricksters, Protean Predators / Bekoff, Marc

20. Bottlenose Dolphins: Social Relationships in a Big-Brained Aquatic Mammal / Connor, Richard C.

21. Bonnet Macaques: Evolutionary Perspectives on Females' Lives / Silk, Joan B.

22. Chimpanzee Hunters: Chaos or Cooperation in the Forest? / Boesch, Christophe

23. Cooperative Hunting and Sociality in African Wild Dogs, Lycaon pictus / Creel, Scott

24. Gorilla Socioecology: Conflict and Compromise between the Sexes / Harcourt, A. H.

25. Cheetahs and Their Mating System / Caro, T. M. / Kelly, M. J.

Closing Thoughts / Dugatkin, Lee Alan

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780691207247

0691207240

OCLC:

1143810329