Escaping From Predators: An Integrative View of Escape Decisions - Softcover

Cooper, William E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107630630 ISBN 13: 9781107630635

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Bringing together theory and reality of prey escape from predators, this book benchmarks new and current thinking in escape ecology.

About this title

About the Authors

William E. Cooper, Jr is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and a Research Associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Arizona. A behavioural ecologist by background, he has over thirty-five years of teaching and research experience in behaviour, ecology and evolution. He has specialised in escape behaviour for the past twenty years, with particular interest in reptilian behaviour.

Daniel T. Blumstein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Professor in UCLA's Institute of Environment and Sustainability. He has studied animal behaviour throughout the world, with research focusing on the evolution of social and antipredator behaviour and the effects that mechanisms of behaviour have on higher-level ecological processes and for wildlife conservation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107630630
• ISBN 13: 9781107630635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Cooper William E