Eugene S. Morton (Washington DC Smithsonian Institution)

Animal Vocal Communication

Assessment and Management Roles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal vocal communication, this book moves beyond an earlier emphasis on senders' management of receiver behaviour, to emphasise how receivers' responses influence signalling. It offers important insights for researchers and students of animal behaviour, sensory biology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 176mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781107052253
• ISBN-10: 1107052254
• Artikelnr.: 47720749

Autorenporträt

Eugene S. Morton is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto. He specializes in migratory bird behavioural ecology, mating systems in birds and saturniid moths, animal communication and avian/plant coevolution. He received the William Brewster Award from the American Ornithologists' Union in 1995 for his ornithological research.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The informationizing of communication
2. The roles of assessment and management in communication
3. Form and function in vocal communication
4. Mechanisms and proximate processes of vocal communication
5. Assessment/management: a viable replacement for the metaphor of transmitted information
References
Index.