
Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology
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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.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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
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