Food Hoarding in Animals - Couverture souple

Vander Wall, Stephen B. B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226847357 ISBN 13 : 9780226847351

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1990

Synopsis

In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa—mammals, birds, and arthropods—to address issues in evolution, ecology, and behavior.

Drawings, photographs, and appendixes document complex and intrinsically interesting food-hoarding behaviors, and the bibliography of nearly 1,500 sources is itself an invaluable and unique reference.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen B. Vander Wall is assistant professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226847357
• ISBN 13: 9780226847351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 458
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible