Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674064614)

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, Douglass H. 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.

Author: Douglass H. Morse
ISBN-10: 0674064615
ISBN-13: 9780674064614
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1982
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.04w x 1.17d