Modelling in behavioural ecology : an introductory text

Dennis Lendrem

This book describes to the advanced student how models of animal behaviour are developed, why they are developed and how such models are changed, elaborated and eventually replaced. In each chapter, the author introduces models from a subject area, before going on to consider one or two models in detail. The author outlines how the modellers came to frame their problem in a mathematical form. The later sophistication of each model is described and important factors in the evolution of a behavioural ecological model identified. These include moves towards greater ecological validity, assumption reduction and paradigm shifts. This book should be of interest to advanced students in ecology or animal behaviour with no great mathematical skills.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction.- 2. Mathematical Methods.- 3. Optimising a Single Behaviour 1: Optimal Foraging Theory.- 4. Optimising a Single Behaviour 2: Stochastic Models of Foraging Behaviour.- 5. Temporal Patterns: Vigilance in Birds.- 6. Behaviour Sequences: Feeding and Vigilance.- 7. Short-term and Long-term Optimality Models: Territoriality.- 8. Games Theory Models: Social Behaviour.- 9. Conclusions.- Appendix 1: Greek Symbols.- Appendix 2: Indices.- References.- Species Index.

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書名 Modelling in behavioural ecology : an introductory text
著作者等 Lendrem, Dennis
シリーズ名 Studies in behavioural adaptation
出版元 Croom Helm;Timber Press
刊行年月 c1986
ページ数 ix, 214 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0881920312
0881920320
0709916914
9780709941194
NCID BA00703955
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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