Author: W. C. CorningPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468430122
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Invertebrate Learning
Author: W. C. CorningPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468430122
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Life Traces of the Georgia Coast
Author: Anthony J. MartinPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.
The Journal of Biological Psychology
Author: Contributions in Marine Science
Author: University of Texas Marine Science InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Journal of Biological Psychology; Or, Worm Runner's Digest
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Collected Reprints
Author: University of Georgia. Marine InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Worm Runner's Digest
Author: Cephalopod Cognition
Author: Anne-Sophie DarmaillacqPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015561
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Focusing on comparative cognition in cephalopods, this book illuminates the wide range of mental function in this often overlooked group.
Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems
Author: J. Emmett DuffyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199720681
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm competition, active female mate choice, and eusocial behavior in animals outside the traditional social insect groups. Each of these findings has raised new questions, and suggested new answers, about the evolution of behavioral interactions among animals. This volume synthesizes recent research on the sexual and social biology of the Crustacea, one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth. Its staggering diversity includes ecologically important inhabitants of nearly every environment from deep-sea trenches, through headwater streams, to desert soils. The wide range of crustacean phenotypes and environments is accompanied by a comparable diversity of behavioral and social systems, including the elaborate courtship and wildly exaggerated morphologies of fiddler crabs, the mysterious queuing behavior of migrating spiny lobsters, and even eusociality in coral-reef shrimps. This diversity makes crustaceans particularly valuable for exploring the comparative evolution of sexual and social systems. Despite exciting recent advances, however, general recognition of the value of Crustacea as models has lagged behind that of the better studied insects and vertebrates. This book synthesizes the state of the field in crustacean behavior and sociobiology and places it in a conceptually based, comparative framework that will be valuable to active researchers and students in animal behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology. It brings together a group of internationally recognized and rising experts in fields related to crustacean behavioral ecology, ranging from physiology and functional morphology, through mating and social behavior, to ecology and phylogeny. Each chapter makes connections to other, non-crustacean taxa, and the volume closes with a summary section that synthesizes the contributions, discusses anthropogenic impacts, highlights unanswered questions, and provides a vision for profitable future research.
Environment Abstracts Annual 1991
Author: Bowker Editorial StaffPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835231503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
Book Description