Behavioural Responses to a Changing World
Mechanisms and Consequences
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 June 2012
- ISBN 9780199602568
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 248x196x20 mm
- Weight 722 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
The first book of its kind devoted to understanding behavioural responses to environmental change, discussing impacts on both the mechanisms underlying behavioural processes, as well as the longer-term ecological and evolutionary consequences.
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Human-induced environmental change currently represents the single greatest threat to global biodiversity. Species are typically adapted to the local environmental conditions in which they have evolved. Changes in environmental conditions initially influence behaviour, which in turn affects species interactions, population dynamics, evolutionary processes and, ultimately, biodiversity. How animals respond to changed conditions, and how this influences population viability, is an area of growing research interest. Yet, despite the vital links between environmental change, behaviour, and population dynamics, surprisingly little has been done to bridge these areas of research.
Behavioural Responses to a Changing World is the first book of its kind devoted to understanding behavioural responses to environmental change. The volume is comprehensive in scope, discussing impacts on both the mechanisms underlying behavioural processes, as well as the longer-term ecological and evolutionary consequences. Drawing on international experts from across the globe, the book covers topics as diverse as endocrine disruption, learning, reproduction, migration, species interactions, and evolutionary rescue.
This is a wonderfully easy to read volume. The chapters are short and informational, striking a good balance between empirical evidence and conceptual frameworks ... the authors also achieve a good balance between ecological and evolutionary topics
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
PART I: Mechanisms
Understanding behavioural responses and their consequences
Environmental disturbance and animal communication
The endocrine system: can homeostasis be maintained in a changing world?
Experience and learning in changing environments
PART II: Responses
Dispersal
Migration
Foraging
Reproductive behaviour
Social behaviour
Species interactions
PART III: Implications
Behavioural plasticity and environmental change
Population consequences of individual variation in behaviour
Ecosystem consequences of behavioural plasticity and contemporary evolution
The role of behavioural variation in the invasion of new areas
Sexual selection in changing environments: consequences for individuals and populations
Evolutionary rescue under environmental change?
Ecotourism, wildlife management, and behavioural biologists: changing minds for conservation
Index
