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This readable text represents a much needed synthesis of ecological insight into animal behavior. The field of behavioral ecology is relatively new, having evolved from a combination of classical ethology, as developed by Lorenz and Tinbergen, and population ecology. Now for the first time, a single author integrates the vast literature on animal ecology and behavior into a conceptual whole.
Exploring the theme of resource acquisitions, Morse combines the comparative approach to biology with models based on evolutionary theory. Secondary consequences of sexual selection and other selective pressures are considered in detail. Discussion of interspecific interactions and constraints is especially rich, as is the treatment of foraging theory, kinship theory, habitat selection and predator avoidance. Perhaps the book's greatest achievement, however, is its unparalleled ecological and evolutionary analysis of individual differences.
Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology will meet the teaching and reference needs of an extremely broad audience of professional biologists.
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This synthesis and integration of behavioral ecology into a unified framework will, in my opinion, prove extremely valuable to many evolutionary and ecologically oriented biologists, as well as to any serious student of animal biology. The clear, uncomplicated style of the writing will assure its accessibility to any educated reader.--Richard T. Holmes "Dartmouth College "
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This book is about the relationships of animals to their resources and about their relationships to one another through those resources. It brings together parts of two flourishing biological disciplines, ecology and ethology.
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Burnt Orange Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jaquin B. Schulz; Martha L. Tabor (illustrator). "This book is about the relationships of animals to their resources and about their relationships to one another through those resources. It brings together parts of two flourishing biological disciplines, ecology and ethology. Natural history, the description of the lives of animals, is rich in observations useful to both the ethologist and the ecologist. But the theoretical questions addressed by natural historical studies have usually been those of systematics (the phylogenetic relationships between different groups of organisms), not those of ethology or ecology, much less those linking them. Behavioral ecology is not, strictly speaking, a discrete area of ecological theory, as is population ecology or community ecology. Rather it is a way (and I believe a profitable way) of approaching many topics of ecological importance. For this reason I shall not attempt to outline a theory of behavioral ecology. It seems to me that the promise of this approach is that deeper understanding, and new questions, will arise from a more inclusive attack on the old questions." The chapter headings are: Introduction; Variability in Foraging Patterns; Food Selection; Habitat Selection; Avoiding Predation; Behavioral Thermoregulation and Maintenance; Reproduction; Competition, Especially for Mates; Territoriality; Spacing Patterns: Dominance Hierarchies; Competition between Species; Social Groups; and Future Directions. Thirteen chapters, 383 pages, with tables, figures, References, and Index; plus ix pages Acknowledgements and Contents. DJ is sunned, faded, and shows color loss and insignificant chipping; boards are clean and sound; inked name of prior owner on rfEP; text is clean and strong. Seller Inventory # 201712
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