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Description: |
ix, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Ecological trade-offs and social behavior / C.N. Slobodchikoff and William M. Shields -- Cooperation, aggression, and the evolution of social behavior / C.N. Slobodchikoff and William C. Schulz -- The stable group and the determinants of foraging group size / Luc-Alain Giraldeau -- Monogamy in relation to resources / George W. Barlow -- Resources and group sizes of primates / Peter S. Rodman -- Resources, philopatry, and social interactions among mammals / Peter M. Waser -- Resources and social organization of ground- dwelling squirrels / Kenneth B. Armitage -- Social systems, resources, and phylogenetic inertia / Joel Berger -- Ideal free coloniality in the swallows / W.M. Shields [and others] -- Territory quality : key determinant of fitness in the group-living green woodhoopoe / J. David Ligon and Sandra H. Ligon. |
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Contents: Resource and climatic variability : influences on sociality of two southwestern corvids / John M. Marzluff and Russell P. Balda -- Food sharing in the raven, Corvus corax / Bernd Heinrich -- Social competition under mandatory group life / Gregory B. Pollock and Steven W. Rissing -- Relationships between ecology and social behavior in cockroaches / J.Y. Gautier, P. Deleporte and C. Rivault -- Risk sensitivity and foraging in colonial spiders / George W. Uetz -- Resource inheritance in social evolution from termintes to man / Timothy G. Myles. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Ecology of social behavior. San Diego : Academic Press, ©1988 (OCoLC)656174841 |
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Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780126487817.pdf |
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Name Added Entry: |
Slobodchikoff, C. N., editor. |