Behavioural responses to a changing world : mechanisms and consequences /

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Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:	xix, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Animal behavior. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Animals -- Adaptation. Environmental psychology. Animal behavior. Animals -- Adaptation. Environmental psychology. Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8864789

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Other authors / contributors:	Candolin, Ulrika. Wong, Bob B. M.
ISBN:	9780199602568 (hbk.) 0199602565 (hbk.) 0199602573 (pbk.) 9780199602575 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Mechanisms
1. Understanding behavioural responses and their consequences
2. Environmental disturbance and animal communication
3. The endocrine system: can homeostasis be maintained in a changing world?
4. Experience and learning in changing environments
Part II. Responses
5. Dispersal
6. Migration
7. Foraging
8. Reproductive behaviour
9. Social behaviour
10. Species interactions
Part III. Implications
11. Behavioural plasticity and environmental change
12. Population consequences of individual variation in behaviour
13. Ecosystem consequences of behavioural plasticity and contemporary evolution
14. The role of behavioural variation in the invasion of new areas
15. Sexual selection in changing environments: consequences for individuals and populations
16. Evolutionary rescue under environmental change?
17. Ecotourism, wildlife management, and behavioural biologists: changing minds for conservation
Index

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