Format:
Online-Ressource (XXII, 322 p)
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digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences
ISBN:
9783642182648
Series Statement:
Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis 141
Content:
Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high. Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783540592440
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783642621284
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783540592440
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783642182655
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-18264-8
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