Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology

by David Westneat, Charles Fox
ISBN-10:
0195331923
ISBN-13:
9780195331929
Pub. Date:
03/05/2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195331923
ISBN-13:
9780195331929
Pub. Date:
03/05/2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology

by David Westneat, Charles Fox
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Overview

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used as a text for graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight into the controversies and themes shaping the continuing development of the field. Essays on adaptation, selection, fitness, genetics, plasticity, and phylogeny as they pertain to behavior place the field in the broader context of ecology and evolution. These concepts, along with a diversity of theoretical approaches are applied to the evolution of behavior in a many contexts, from individual decision-making of solitary animals through to complex social interactions.

Chapters integrate conceptual and theoretical approaches with recent empirical advances to understand the evolution of behavior, from foraging, dealing with risk, predator avoidance, and an array of social behaviors, including fighting and cooperation with conspecifics and conflict and cooperation between the sexes. The material emphasizes integrative and novel approaches to behavior, including cognitive ecology, personality, conservation biology, the links between behavior and evolution, the evolution of human social behavior, and ways in which modern genetic analyses can augment the study of behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195331929
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/05/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 664
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

David F. Westneat is a Professor at the University of Kentucky whose career has focused on studying social and reproductive behavior in birds. He has served as member of the editorial boards of Molecular Ecology and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, as Editor-in-Chief for Behavioral Ecology, and is currently on the Board of Ecology Letters.

Charles Fox is a Professor at the University of Kentucky and is the co-editor of four previous books, Maternal Effects as Adaptations (1998; with Tim Mousseau), Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies (2001; with Derek Roff and Daphne Fairbairn), Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies (2006; with Jason Wolf), and Conservation Biology: Evolution in Action (2008; with Scott Carroll). Charles is also Executive Editor of the journal Functional Ecology.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Section I. Foundations
Section II. Decision-Making
Section III. Ecology of Behavior
Section IV. Social Behavior
Section V. Reproductive Behavior
Section VI. Extensions
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