Format:
Online-Ressource (XXI, 173p. 39 illus, digital)
ISBN:
9781461415183
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1283441128
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9781283441124
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Content:
Richard H. Yahner
Content:
Begins with in-depth coverage of wildlife behavior concepts as they relate to conservation problems. Topics will focus principally on discussion, critique, and development of behavioral concepts, with particular attention given to published studies on various topics in wildlife behavioral concepts as related to conservation and natural history. He will include an extensive list of references
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Description based upon print version of record
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Wildlife Behavior and Conservation; Acknowledgment; About the Author; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Comparative Psychology Versus Ethology; 1.1 Behavior and Wildlife Management; 1.2 Comparative Psychology Versus Ethology; Chapter 2: Genetics and Other Mechanisms Affecting Behavior; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Diversity in Behavior Diversity; 2.3 Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology; 2.4 Social Organization or Social System; 2.5 Social Units; 2.6 Matriarchal Social Units; 2.7 Plasticity in Social Unit Size; 2.8 What Do Animals Learn in a Social Unit?; 2.9 Cultural Transmission of Learning
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2.10 Ultimate Versus Proximate Factors in Wildlife Behavior2.11 Hormones and Proximate Factors; 2.12 The Nervous System, Biochemistry, and Behavior; Chapter 3: Mate-acquisition and Parental-Care Systems; 3.1 Courtship and Mating Systems; 3.2 Monogamy; 3.3 Polygamy; 3.4 Promiscuity and Other Mating Systems; 3.5 Mating and Mechanisms of Mating Interference; 3.6 Mate Choice; Chapter 4: Mating Systems and Parental Care; 4.1 Courtship; 4.2 Parental-Care Systems; 4.3 Altruism and Parental Care; 4.4 Brood Parasitism and Parental Care; 4.5 Brown-Headed Cowbird; 4.6 Altricial and Precocial Young
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4.7 Lactation in Mammals4.8 Pouches, Parental Care, Locomotion, and Altricial Versus Precocial Young; 4.9 Duration of Parental Care and the Timing of Dispersal; Chapter 5: Dispersal and Corridors; 5.1 Timing of Dispersal; 5.2 Reasons to Disperse or Not to Disperse; 5.2.1 Corridors in the Landscape; 5.2.2 Landscape Linkages or Megacorridors; Chapter 6: Food-Acquisition Systems; 6.1 General Comments; 6.2 Wildlife and the Prey Rat Race; 6.3 Optimal Foraging Theory; 6.4 Central Place Foraging and Hoarding of Food; 6.5 Constraints on Optimal Foraging: Predation and Competition
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6.6 Foraging and Group Life6.7 Predation and Prey Distribution; 6.8 Humans as Prey; 6.9 Conservation and Warfare; Chapter 7: Additional Adaptations Against Predation; 7.1 Some Less-Direct Adaptations; 7.2 Warning Coloration; 7.3 Mimicry; 7.4 Playing Possum and Enhancement; 7.5 Weaponry in Animals; Chapter 8: Habitat Selection; 8.1 Selection Versus Use of a Substrate or Habitat; 8.2 Testing Habitat Selection Versus Use; 8.3 Habitat Selection and Urban Wildlife; 8.4 Habitat Selection and Wildlife Recolonization; 8.5 Some Factors Affecting Habitat Selection
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8.6 Other Factors Affecting Habitat Selection8.6.1 Ambient Temperature; 8.6.2 Acid Deposition; 8.6.3 Population Density; 8.6.4 Tradition; 8.7 Is Habitat Selection Learned?; 8.8 Role of Resources: Generalist Versus Specialist; 8.9 Some Problems in Quantifying Habitat Selection; Chapter 9: Home Range and Homing; 9.1 Some Comments About Home Range; 9.2 Relationship Between Home Range and Dispersion Patterns; 9.3 Homing in Wildlife; 9.4 Quantifying a Home Range; 9.5 How Large Is a Home Range; 9.6 What Is the Shape of a Home Range?; Chapter 10: Spacing Mechanisms
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10.1 Introduction to Territoriality
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781461415152
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 9781461415152
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Verhaltensforschung
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-1518-3
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