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Behavioural Ecology
Edited by Etienne Danchin, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, and Frank Cézilly
912 pages
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numerous figures
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260x190mm
978-0-19-920629-2
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Paperback
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14 February 2008
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- A fresh, new textbook to reinvigorate the teaching of behavioural ecology
- Contributions from research experts coupled to meticulous editing provide a text with all the qualities of a multi-authored book without the potential drawbacks
- Full coverage of topics including conservation, host-parasite interactions, dispersal, and social foraging and sex-ratio games, as well as hormones and behaviour, gives the book a truly contemporary flavour, and takes students to the frontiers of the subject.
- Unique coverage of the fundamental building blocks of behavioural ecology make this the ideal resource for students coming to the subject for the first time
- Online Resource Centre features downloadable figures for lecturers and web links for students, to enhance the value of the text as a teaching and learning tool
Why are some species monogamous while others are polygamous? Why are males usually more ornamented than females? What makes one organism the hunter and another the hunted? Why do some creatures stick together in groups while others prefer to go it alone? Can we talk of animal culture? Behavioural Ecology provides a fascinating insight into the evolutionary and ecological processes that underpin animal behaviour.
Opening with an overview of the evolutionary and methodological framework of behavioural ecology, the book goes on to
explore behaviours in terms of the selective pressures involved in their design. It addresses natural selection, sexual selection, and gene selection, before closing with an investigation of the human impact on behavioural ecology.
Featuring chapters written by university teachers, each with research expertise in their respective fields, Behavioural Ecology has been moulded by Danchin, Giraldeau, and Cezilly to give a uniform voice throughout: it is a text with all the qualities of a multi-author book, but without the potential drawbacks. Behavioural Ecology offers a fresh, contemporary account of a field re-invigorated by advances in the last decade, making it the ideal teaching and learning text.
Online Resource Centre:
For registered adopters of the book:
-Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation
For students:
-Library of web links, giving ready access to additional resourcesReadership: Intermediate and advanced biosciences undergraduates studying behavioural ecology or animal behaviour. Also of value to postgraduate students of behavioural ecology as well as for university and school teachers.
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Edited by Etienne Danchin, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada, and Frank Cézilly, Université de Bourgogne, Laboratoire écologie-évolution, France Contributors:
Thierry Boulinier, Chargé de recherché CNRS, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France.
Frank Cézilly, Professeur à l'Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Michel Chapuisat, Senior Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Jean Clobert, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Station d'Écologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis USR 2936, Saint-Girons, France.
Étienne Danchin, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR CNRS-UPS 5174, Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France.
Michelle de Fraipont, Ingénieur de Recherche CNRS, Station d'Écologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis USR 2936, Saint-Girons, France.
Blandine Doligez, Chargé de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon; Villeurbanne, France.
Alfred M. Dufty, Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Boise State University, ID, USA.
Régis Férrière, Professeur, École normale supérieure, Membre de
l'Institut universitaire de France, Laboratoire Écologie & Évolution, Paris, France.
Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Enseignant Chercheur, Département des sciences biologiques. Université du Québec à Montréal. Montréal, Canada.
Philipp Heeb, Chargé de Recherche CNRS. Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR CNRS-UPS 5174, Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France.
Jean-François Legalliard, Chargé de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d'Écologie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Mylène Mariette, PhD student, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Anders P. Møller, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive. CNRS UMR 7103, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, Paris, France.
Barry Sinervo, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Gabriele Sorci, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, BioGéoSciences CNRS UMR 5561, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Marc Théry, Chargé de Recherche CNRS, CNRS UMR 7179 - GDR 2155 Écologie Comportementale, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Brunoy. France.
Richard H. Wagner, Senior Scientist. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, Austria.
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"[A] clean and comprehensive coherence and whilst a solid reference and textbook work, it is a genuine pleasure to read." - Journal of Biological Education "It neatly integrates behavioural mechanisms with the adaptive value of behavioural traits, and their underlying genetics. What is more, it is an ejoyable read. It is sure to appeal to a wide spectrum of readers from undergraduates through to professional behavioural ecologists." - Owen Jones in Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2009 "I found a substantial amount of new information and the book is excellent in refreshing one's memory and broadening one's views: and all this for a reasonable price. I am convinced that anyone interested in
this field, from undergraduates to professionals, will enjoy this much needed new textbook on behavioural ecology." - Marc Naguib in Animal Behaviour, 2008 "This is an excellent textbook, useful for students at all levels, as well as professionals. I think this book is set to become the new standard textbook on behavioural ecology." - Eliza Z. Cameron in Behavioural Processes, 2008 "I think it achieves the very difficult task of being of value to a wide spectrum of readers. It is sufficiently clear and careful in its explanations, and fulsome in its examples that undergraduates can really use it. At the same time, almost everyone who would call themselves professional behavioural ecologists will benefit from reading this book." -
Graeme Ruxton, University of Glasgow
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IntroductionDanchin, É, Giraldeau, L-A, and Cézilly, F:
PART ONE: The Behavioural Ecology Approach
1: Cézilly, F: A History of Behavioural Ecology
2: Danchin, É., Cézilly, F. and Giraldeau, L-A: Fundamental Concepts in Behavioural Ecology
3: Cézilly, F., Danchin, É. et Giraldeau, L.-A: Research Methods in Behavioural Ecology
4: Danchin, É., Giraldeau, L-A. and Wagner, R. H.: An Information-Driven Approach to Behaviour
PART TWO: The Development of the Behavioural Phenotype
5: Sinervo, B. and Clobert, J.: Life History Strategies, Multidimensional Trade-offs and Behavioural Syndromes
6: Dufty A. M. and Danchin, É.: Hormones and Behaviour
PART THREE: Exploiting the Environment
7: Giraldeau, L.-A: Solitary Foraging Strategies
8: Giraldeau, L.-A: Social Foraging
9: Boulinier, T., Mariette, M., Doligez, B. and Danchin, É: Choosing Where to Breed: Breeding Habitat Selection
10: Clobert, J., de Fraipont, M. et Danchin, É: Evolution of Dispersal
PART FOUR: Sex and Behaviour
11: Danchin, É. and Cézilly, F: Sexual Selection: Another Evolutionary Process
12: Cézilly, F. and Danchin, É: Mating Systems and Parental Care
13: Chapuisat, M: Sex Allocation
PART FIVE: Social Interactions Among Individuals
14: Danchin, É., Giraldeau, L.-A. and Wagner, R. H.: Animal Aggregations: Hypotheses and Controversies
15: Legalliard, J.-F. and Férrière, R: The Adaptive Evolution of Social Traits
16: Théry, M. and Heeb, Ph.: Communication, Sensory Ecology and Signal Evolution
17: Sorci, G. and Cézilly, F.: Interspecific Parasitism and Mutualism
PART SIX: Humans and Animals
18: Møller, A. P., Danchin, É.: Behavioural Ecology and Conservation
19: Møller, A. P. et Danchin, É: The Behavioural Ecology and Humans
20: Danchin, É., and Wagner, R. H.: Cultural Evolution
Glossary
List of References
Index of Species
General Index
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