Felicity Anne Huntingford

Behavioural Ecology of Fishes (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This discipline of behavioural ecology has reached a turning point- empirical evidence in behavioural ecology has led to the reformulation of the classic explanatory theories, and new areas of interest have opened up. The study of fish provides an excellent model of the subject, allowing a concise but complete treatment of the field. This book is based on papers from the proceedings of a conference held at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy, provides an overview of the key developments in behavioural ecology. Four main areas of interest are covered the behavioural ecology of predator avoidance, foraging, resource defence and life histories and reproduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482287202
• Artikelnr.: 54911836

Autorenporträt

Huntingford, Felicity Anne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Behaviour, Ecology and Teleost Fishes 2. Fish Behavioural
Ecology: Pros, Cons and Opportunities Predator avoidance 3. Evolution of
Adaptive Variation in Antipredator Behaviour 4. The Development of Adaptive
Variation in Predator a voidance in Freshwater Fishes 5. Learning
Interactions between Prey and Predator Fish 6. Conflicting Demands in
Gobies: When to Eat, Reproduce, and Avoid Predators 7. Foraging 8. Choosing
Prey Size: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Foraging Models for
Predicting Prey Choice by Fish 9. Factors Affecting the Behavioural
Mechanisms of Diet Selection in Fishes 10. Morphological Constraints on
Behaviour through Ontogeny. the Importance of Developmental Constraints
Resource defence 11. Whether or Not to Defend? the Influence of Resource
Distribution 12. The Puzzling Paucity of Feeding Territories among
Freshwater Fishes 13. Knowledge of Proximate Causes Aid Our Understanding
of Function and Evolutionary History Life histories and reproduction 14.
Behavioural Implications of Intraspecific Life History Variation 15.
Behavioural Causes and Consequences of Life History Variation in Fish 16.
Sex Role Reversal in a Pipefish 17. The Importance of Male-: Male
Competition and Sexually Selected Dimorphic Traits for Male Reproductive
Success in Site-attached Fishes with Paternal Care: The Case of the
Freshwater Goby Padogobius martensi 18. Male Competition, Female Mate
Choice and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Poeciliid Fishes 19. The Advantages of
Being Red: Sexual Selection in the Stickleback Conclusions 20. Behavioural
Organisation and the Evolution of Behavioural Strategies