Animal Behavior - Dustin Rubenstein

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Résumé :

• 1 An Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 1.1 Natural Selection and the Evolution of Behavior
• --1.1.1 The Cost-Benefit Approach
• --1.1.2 The Levels of Analysis
• --1.1.3 The Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
• 1.2 Approaches to Studying Behavior
• 1.2.1 Examining the Adaptive Basis of Behavior
• 1.2.2 Inferring the Evolutionary History of Behavior
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• 2 The Integrative Study of Behavior
• 2.1 The Development of Song Learning
• --2.1.1 Intraspecific Variation and Dialects
• --2.1.2 Social Experience and Song Development
• 2: Mechanisms of Song Learning
• --2.2.1 The Genetics of Song Learning
• --2.2.2 The Avian Song Control System
• 2.3 The Evolution of Song Learning
• --2.3.1 An Evolutionary History of Bird Song
• --2.3.2 Song Learning: A Comparative Approach
• 2.4 The Adaptive Value of Song Learning
• --2.4.1 Ecological and Social Correlates of Song Learning
• --2.4.2 Social Competition and Mate Choice
• 3 The Developmental and Molecular Bases of Behavior
• 3: Behavior Requires Genes and the Environment
• --3.1.1 Behavioral Ontogeny
• --3.1.2 Gene Regulation Influences Behavior
• 3.2 The Evolutionary Development of Behavior
• --3.2.1 The Evo-Devo Approach to Understanding Behavior
• --3.2.2 Molecular Toolkits and the Development of Behavior
• 3.3 The Development of Behavioral Variation
• --3.3.1 Early Life Developmental Conditions
• --3.3.2 Alternative Behavioral Phenotypes
• 4 The Neural Basis of Behavior
• 4: Responding to Stimuli
• --4.1.1 Complex Behavioral Responses to Simple Stimuli
• --4.1.2 How Moths Avoid Bats
• 4.2 Sensory Stimuli and Nervous System Control
• --4.2.1 Decision Making in the Brain
• --4.2.2 Alternative Sensory Modalities 105
• 4.3 Translating Sensory Stimuli into Behavior
• --4.3.1 Neural Mechanisms of Information Transfer
• --4.3.2 Stimulus Filtering
• 5 The Physiological and Endocrine Bases of Behavior
• 5: Endogenous Rhythms and Changing Behavioral Priorities
• --5.1.1 Endogenous versus Exogenous Control of Behavioral Priorities
• --5.1.2 Mechanisms of Changing Behavioral Priorities
• 5.2 Cues that Entrain Cycles of Behavior
• --5.2.1 Predictable Environmental Cues
• --5.2.2 Unpredictable Environmental Cues
• 5.3 Hormones and Behavior
• --5.3.1 Activational Effects of Hormones
• --5.3.2 Hormonal Causes and Consequences of Behavior
• 6 Avoiding Predators and Finding Food
• 6: Antipredator Behavior
• --6.1.1 Blending In
• --6.1.2 Standing Out
• --6.1.3 Social Defenses
• --6.1.4 Optimality Theory and Antipredator Behavior
• 6.2 Foraging Behavior
• --6.2.1 Optimal Foraging Theory
• --6.2.2 Landscapes of Fear
• --6.2.3 Cognition and Finding Food
• --6.2.4 Frequency Dependence and Foraging Behavior
• 7 Territoriality and Movement
• 7: Where to Live
• --7.1.1 Habitat
• --7.1.2 Selection
• --7.1.3 Territoriality
• 7.2 To Stay or Go
• --7.2.1 Dispersal
• --7.2.2 Variation in Migratory Behavior and Connectivity 225
• 8 Principles of Communication
• 8: Communication and Animal Signals
• --8.1.1 A Communication Framework
• --8.1.2 Functionally Referent Signa...

  Biographie:
  Dustin Rubenstein is a Professor of Ecology at Columbia University and an integrative behavioral and evolutionary ecologist who studies (1) the evolution of complex animal societies and (2) how organisms adapt to and cope with environmental change....

  Sommaire:
  The leading text in the field shows how researchers use scientific logic to study the underlying mechanisms and evolutionary bases of behavior, with emphasis on how evolutionary theory unifies the various sub disciplines within animal behavior. A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments....