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Behavioural ecologists study how animals maximize their genetic representation, whilst conservation biologists study small populations & attempt to prevent species extinctions. This volume attempts to link these disciplines formally.
Animal behavior. --- Animal ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Animals --- Zoology --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior --- Nature protection --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology
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From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now hardly any have been seriously addressed or even tested. In Zebra Stripes, Tim Caro takes readers through a decade of painstaking fieldwork examining the significance of black-and-white striping and, after systematically dismissing every hypothesis for these markings with new data, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: zebra markings are nature's defense against biting fly annoyance. Popular explanations for stripes range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a serious challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro is able to weigh up the pros and cons of each idea. Eventually-driven by experiments showing that biting flies avoid landing on striped surfaces, observations that striping is most intense where biting flies are abundant, and knowledge of zebras' susceptibility to biting flies and vulnerability to the diseases that flies carry-Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack. Not just a tale of one scientist's quest to solve a classic mystery of biology, Zebra Stripes is also a testament to the tremendous value of longitudinal research in behavioral ecology, demonstrating how observation, experiment, and comparative research can together reshape our understanding of the natural world.
Zebras --- Stripes. --- Protective coloration (Biology) --- Color. --- adaptive significance. --- black and white coloration. --- equids. --- evolution. --- hypothesis testing. --- zebras.
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Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays spans virtually all of the key subfields of the discipline, from behavioral and evolutionary ecology to population biology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology. These essays are intended to stoke curiosity, challenge prevailing wisdom, and provoke new ways of thinking about ecology in light of new technologies and unprecedented environmental challenges brought on by climate and land-use change. Authoritative and accessible, Unsolved Problems in Ecology is ideal for graduate students in the early stages of their scientific careers and an essential resource for seasoned ecologists looking for exciting new directions to take their research.Sheds light on modern ecology's most important and compelling open questionsFeatures thought-provoking contributions from more than two dozen world-class ecologistsCovers behavior, evolution, communities, ecosystems, resource management, and moreDiscusses ways to raise the financial and intellectual profile of the disciplineAn invaluable resource for graduate students as well as seasoned ecologists
Ecology. --- Population biology. --- Coexistence of species. --- Ecosystem management. --- Biodiversity conservation. --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Biotic communities --- Ecosystems management --- Applied ecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Sympatry (Biology) --- Population biology --- Species --- Biology --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Conservation --- Management --- auto ecology. --- autoecology. --- conservation. --- ecological communities. --- environmental policy. --- environmentalism. --- food web structure. --- food webs. --- growth regulation. --- high dimensional trait space. --- individual-based data. --- interdependence and mutualism. --- intra-genomic variance. --- mating. --- mutation. --- natural resource management. --- population dynamics of complex life cycles. --- population dynamics. --- population size. --- scaling in ecology. --- soil biodiversity. --- species coexistence. --- species richness distribution. --- variance explicit ecology.
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