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Animal space use is complex, from both the individual and population perspectives. Spatial memory leads to site fidelity, the emergence of home ranges, and multi-scaled use of the environment. Attraction to conspecifics--another memory-dependent property--contributes to population survival by counteracting decline in local abundance from unconstrained dispersal. However, memory effects, multi-scaled space use, and intra-specific cohesion present deep theoretical challenges for biophysical modelling. This book confronts these issues straight on, and presents a range of novel system descriptors, model designs, and simulations; intrinsic properties from memory and scaling are illustrated in detail, and classical models are scrutinized with respect to compliance with real data. The presentations of concepts are geared towards a broad audience of researchers and students with an interest in animal space use.The book advocates that an extension of the biophysical frame of reference may be needed to understand systems that express intrinsic complexity from the combined effects of scaling and memory. It boldly provides an overview and critical evaluation of existing concepts, and a wide range of theoretical proposals to resolve present challenges.

Animal ecology.

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Animal population ecology comprises the study of variations, regulation, and interactions of animal populations. This book discusses the fundamental notions and findings of animal populations on which most of the ecological studies are based. In particular, the author selects the logistic law of population growth, the nature of competition, sociality as an antithesis of competition, the mechanism underlying the regulation of populations, predator-prey interaction processes, and interactions among closely related species competing over essential resources. These are the notions that are considered to be well-established facts or principles and are regularly taught at ecology classes or introduced in standard textbooks. However, the author demonstrates that these notions are still inadequately understood, or even misunderstood, creating myths that would misguide ecologists in carrying out their studies. He delves deeply into those notions to reveal their real nature and draws a road map to the future development of ecology.

Animal populations. --- Animal ecology.

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"Animal population ecology comprises the study of variations, regulation, and interactions of animal populations. This book discusses the fundamental notions and findings of animal populations on which most of the ecological studies are based. In particular, the author selects the logistic law of population growth, the nature of competition, sociality as an antithesis of competition, the mechanism underlying the regulation of populations, predator-prey interaction processes, and interactions among closely related species competing over essential resources. These are the notions that are considered to be well-established facts or principles and are regularly taught at ecology classes or introduced in standard textbooks. However, the author demonstrates that these notions are still inadequately understood, or even misunderstood, creating myths that would misguide ecologists in carrying out their studies. He delves deeply into those notions to reveal their real nature and draws a road map to the future development of ecology"--

Animal populations. --- Animal ecology. --- Animaux --- Écologie animale. --- Populations --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Écologie animale.

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Un livre fondateur de l'écoféminisme et des humanités écologiques En février 1985, Val Plumwood survécut à une attaque de crocodile dans le parc national de Kakadu, en Australie. Après avoir longuement réfléchi à cette expérience, elle écrivit un texte. Loin d'être un simple récit d'aventure, celui-ci s'interroge sur le sens de nos vies et aborde des problèmes philosophiques cruciaux pour notre époque.Inspiré par les récits mythologiques des Aborigènes australiens et des Egyptiens de l'Antiquité, Val percevait le crocodile comme un trickster, une créature permettant de juger le comportement des êtres humains dévoyés. Suivant une métaphore biblique, on pourrait dire que le crocodile juge sévèrement la prétention des êtres humains à dominer un monde malléable.

Écologie --- Écologie humaine --- Prédation (biologie) --- Philosophie de la nature. --- Philosophie de l'environnement. --- Écologie animale --- Animalité (philosophie) --- Philosophie. --- Human-animal relationships --- Predation (Biology) --- Animal ecology --- Animal

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Animal Physiology : an environmental perspective provides a broad review of animal physiology, demonstrating how an understanding of the physiology of animals in their natural habitats helps us to understand how and why animals evolved the way they did, as well as how we can protect them from the extreme effects of changes to their environments. (-) The only text to take an evolutionary approach to show how physiological systems allow animals to adapt to their changing environments (-) The main narrative focuses on key concepts, and panels expand on particular topics or themes, helping students to grasp difficult concepts in a progressive, layered way (-) An accessible introduction to the physical and chemical properties of the environments in which animals live helps students to avoid a superficial or confused understanding of this often challenging aspect of the subject (-) Carefully chosen examples illustrate how different groups of animals have evolved different solutions to deal with environmental challenges (-) The exploration of real world issues such as climate change and pollution from the point of view of their physiological effects on animals shows how our understanding of such topics can be translated into new approaches to conservation (-) Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support.

Physiology. --- Animal ecology. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physiologie. --- Écologie animale. --- Évolution (biologie) --- 591.1 --- Animal ecology --- 591.1 Animal physiology --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Evolution (Biology). --- Écologie animale. --- Évolution (biologie)