Perturbation Behavioural Feedbacks And Population Dynamics In Social Animals
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Perturbation Behavioural Feedbacks and Population Dynamics in Social Animals
Author | : Daniel Oro |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780192589743 |
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This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals, including ourselves. Social responses to perturbations, especially dispersal processes, can also generate non-linear population dynamics, including the potential appearance of tipping points and critical population transitions, which can in turn lead to catastrophic shifts and collapses. The book describes the links between social behaviour (mainly the use of social information and social copying), and non-linear population dynamics at different spatial scales (local dynamics and meta-population dynamics), and their ecological and evolutionary consequences. Examples from the natural world illustrate each of the main themes (prospecting, habitat suitability, collective dispersal, and cultural evolution). Human warfare and conflict, referred to in several chapters together with quantitative and qualitative examples, is also viewed as a form of perturbation and represents a paradigmatic example of the rationale behind this book. This applicability to our own species is particularly timely, given increased interest in both ecosystem change, human migration, and the global refugee crisis. Perturbation, Behavioural Feedbacks, and Population Dynamics in Social Animals will appeal to applied, theoretical, and evolutionary ecologists, particularly those working on the population and behavioural ecology of any social animal including humans. Its overlap with the study of complexity will also ensure its relevance and use to scientists from other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, physics, computational science, economics, and mathematics.
Marine Mammals the Evolving Human Factor
Author | : Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara,Bernd Würsig |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030981006 |
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The seventh volume in the series “Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals” describes aspects of the often-complex relationship between humans and marine mammals. From a primeval condition of occasional predators, during the last century humans have become a major factor negatively affecting the status of most marine mammals through over-hunting, habitat encroachment and environmental degradation. This has led to the extirpation of many marine mammal populations and even to the extinction of species. However, in parallel to this destructive drive, since antiquity humanity has been influenced by a strong fascination for marine mammals, which contributes today to an increased human appreciation of the natural world admixed with widespread concern for its degrading condition. The special status occupied by marine mammals in human imagination and affection stands in stark contrast with the current predicament of many populations still threatened by the doings of Homo sapiens: a condition emblematic of the relationship of humanity with nature, and key to understanding where humanity is heading.
Behavioural Responses to a Changing World
Author | : Ulrika Candolin,Bob B.M. Wong |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780199602575 |
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Species are typically adapted to the local environmental conditions in which they have evolved.
Social Behaviour in Fluctuating Populations
Author | : Andrew Cockburn |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987-12-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0709934262 |
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This book forges a synthesis between the discipline of behavioural ecology and what is known of the social behaviour and population dynamics of cyclic populations of vertebrates, with particular discussion of the cyclic voles and lemmings. Areas of uncertainty, and those which show promise are identified, and tests of competing hypotheses are suggested. Finally, the relevance of social dynamics to population growth and decline are examined, and a hypothesis on the role of aggressiveness in expanding populations is presented.
From Individual Behaviour to Population Ecology
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Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:933960295 |
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Population Control by Social Behaviour
Author | : Francis John Govier Ebling,David Michael Stoddart |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822010950665 |
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Living in Groups
Author | : Jens Krause,Graeme D. Ruxton |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198508174 |
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Shoals, swarms, flocks, herds--group formation is a widespread phenomenon in animal populations. It raises several interesting questions for behavioral ecologists. Why do animals form and live in groups, and what factors influence the ways in which they do this? What are the costs and benefits to an anmimal of group living? How are these influenced by ecological factors?
Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour
Author | : Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : UOM:49015000449448 |
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An outline of the principles of animal dispersion. The integration of social groups by visible signals. Dispersion in the breeding season: birds. Display characters and natural selection. Fourther consideration of castes in animal societies. Timing and synchronisation. Vertical migration of the plankton. Fluctuations, irruptions and emigrations. Recruitment through reproduction. Socially-induced mortality. Deferment of growth and maturity.