Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms - Couverture souple

Anthes, Nils; Bergmüller, Ralph; Blanckenhorn, Wolf; Brockmann, H. Jane; Fichtel, Claudia; Fromhage, Lutz; Frommen, Joachim; Goymann, Wolfgang; Heinze, Juergen; Hirschenhauser, Katharina; Hofer, Heribert; Kaiser, Sylvia; Kappeler, Peter M.; Kempenaers, Bart; Kerth, Gerald; Korb, Judith Ingrid; Kotrschal, Kurt M.; Kraus, Cornelila; Manser, Martha; Michiels, Nico; Moritz, Robin F. A.; Pahl, Mario; Penn, Dustin; Sachser, Norbert; Schaefer, Martin; Van Schaik, Carel P.; Schneider, Jutta M.; Schreiber, Isabella; Taborsky, Michael; Tautz, Jürgen; Trillmich, Fritz; Zhang, Shaowu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3662502356 ISBN 13 : 9783662502358

Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2016

Synopsis

Communication and cognition.- Visual communication: evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms.- Vocal communication in social groups.- Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory.- Honeybee cognition.- Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose example.- Conflict and cooperation.- Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects.- Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection.- Cooperation between unrelated individuals - a game theoretic approach.- Group decision-making in animal societies.- Parental care: adjustments to conflict and cooperation.- Sex and reproduction.- The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory.- Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites.- Extra-pair behaviour.- Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation.- Monogynous mating strategies in spiders.- Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones.- Behavioural variation.- The social modulation of behavioural development.- Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes.- Animal personality and behavioural syndromes.- Social learning and culture in animals.- Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3662502356
• ISBN 13: 9783662502358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 728
• Éditeur: Kappeler Peter M.
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