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Journal articles on the topic "Sociobiology and behavioural ecology"

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Zahavi, Amotz. "Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behaviour." Animal Behaviour 65, no. 5 (May 2003): 859–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2109.

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Slater, P. J. B. "Experimental behavioral ecology and sociobiology." Animal Behaviour 34 (February 1986): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-3472(86)90045-x.

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Mastel, Karen, Jerry W. Stuth, B. Holldobler, and M. Lindauer. "Experimental Behaviorial Ecology and Sociobiology." Journal of Range Management 40, no. 2 (March 1987): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3899219.

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Foster, Kevin R., and Joao B. Xavier. "Cooperation: Bridging Ecology and Sociobiology." Current Biology 17, no. 9 (May 2007): R319—R321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.005.

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Bakker, Theo C. M., and James F. A. Traniello. "Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology at 40." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70, no. 12 (October 29, 2016): 1991–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2227-7.

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QUELLER, D. C. "The Sociobiology of Plants: Plant Reproductive Ecology." Science 243, no. 4888 (January 13, 1989): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.243.4888.244.

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WEST-EBERHARD, M. J. "Animal Behavior: Experimental Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology." Science 231, no. 4733 (January 3, 1986): 64–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4733.64.

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Montgomerie, Robert. "The impact of behavioral ecology and sociobiology." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 37, no. 3 (September 1995): 145–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00176710.

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Arens, W. "The esthetics of sociobiology." Journal of Human Evolution 18, no. 4 (June 1989): 401–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484(89)90039-0.

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Freese, Lee. "The Song of Sociobiology." Sociological Perspectives 37, no. 3 (September 1994): 337–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389501.

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The author rejects as unfounded the argument that sociobiology can provide a nomothetic foundation for the sociocultural sciences. The theoretical logic of sociobiology is reviewed, the scope of the theory is discussed, and its problems of inference, ecology, and myth making are analyzed. The explicit claim made by interpreters that the theory provides ultimate explanations, and the implicit claim to a privileged status for these, cannot be theoretically, empirically, or logically justified.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sociobiology and behavioural ecology"

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Alpedrinha, J. A. C. V. "Social evolution and sex allocation theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35e4f1c8-68ea-4395-9e67-5b72982196d6.

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The study of sex allocation is one of the most successful areas in evolutionary biology: its theoretical predictions have been supported by experimental, observational and comparative approaches. Here, I develop sex allocation theory as follows: (1) I use fertility insurance theory to predict the sex ratio strategy of the malaria parasite, in response to human medical interventions that increase mortality and decrease fertility of the parasite’s various sexual stages; (2) Haplodiploidy has been suggested as a driver of the evolution of eusociality, as under this genetic system a female may be more related to her sister than to her own offspring. I examine a model considering queen versus worker control over the sex ratio of the colony and show that haplodiploidy alone does not explain the evolution of helping; (3) I follow up this study of the haplodiploidy hypothesis by examining the idea that split-sex ratios may favour the evolution of eusociality in haplodiploid species. I study the two mechanisms of split sex ratios, that are found in natural populations and may have been important in the transition to eusociality: queen virginity and queen replacement. I focus on the impact of worker reproduction by considering the effect of woker producing a fraction of the colony offspring and by considering variation in the workers’ offspring sex ratio. My analysis shows that worker reproduction does not promote the evolution of helping in haplodiploid species; (4) I examine the evolution and function of a sterile soldier caste in parasitoid wasps from the genus Encyrtidae. Two main functions have been hypothesized for the emergence of soldiers: spiteful mediation of a sex ratio conflict in mixed-sex broods, and altruistic protection and 7 facilitation of the development of relatives. I develop a model considering variation in the oviposition behaviour of females, that may produce single-sex or mixed-sex broods. I show that, in accordance with previous theory, females are expected to produce more soldiers than males, under the sex ratio conflict hypothesis. I also show that one of the consequences of this costly conflict is that females are favoured to produce single-sex broods over mixed-sex broods.
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Dutton, Paul. "Does forage enrichment promote increased activity in captive capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)?" Diss., Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/779.

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In their native habitat of Central and South America, capuchin monkeys (Cebus) spend 45% to 55% of their day foraging and a further 20% travelling. Once these monkeys are introduced into captive environments their diets are selective, seasonal and presented to them by their keepers. The captive environment often leads to various behavioural abnormalities and compensatory behaviours or stereotypies. To address this issue, environmental enrichment can be employed to reduce, cure or prevent such an occurrence. Enrichment can reduce stress, while increasing animal well-being and health in captivity. Despite previous work a better understanding of enrichment, for most neo-tropical primate species, is necessary, in order to improve their captive lifestyles. Feeding of captive primates is more complex than providing a balanced nutritional diet as it must also meet their ethological needs. The manipulation of the presentation of the diet has been shown to significantly decrease the incidence of resting, while significantly increasing the incidence of playing, grooming, foraging and manual manipulation of dietary items. Eleven capuchin monkeys were presented with four different feeding treatments (i.e. cut food presented in bowls, cut food presented around the enclosure, uncut food presented around the enclosure and novel feeding devices presented around the enclosure) from December 2007 until May 2008. At the start of every month one of three feeding treatments was introduced with the cut food in bowls feeding treatment interleaved between the treatments. The different feeding treatments required the monkeys to search for their food, break-up their food into manageable sizes, and obtain food in touch-, tool- and manipulative-dependent methods in order to allow the monkeys an opportunity to display increased activity more in line with their wild conspecifics. The capuchins displayed a period of intense foraging directly following feeding. This period significantly increased (from 44 to 121 min.), along with foraging events and the proportion of time spent foraging, which was more in line with their wild conspecifics. In addition, the frequency of occurrence and the proportion of time spent on locomotion and resting was shown to decrease. Also, abnormal behaviours ceased to occur during the study. Environmental enrichment is a useful tool for providing stimulation, redistributing activity levels more in line with wild conspecifics and to combat abnormal and compensatory behaviours.
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Graf, Astrid. "Influencing habitat selection and use through conspecific attraction and supplementary feeding." Diss., Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1061.

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Bellbirds (Anthornis melanura) are one of two endemic honeyeaters in New Zealand. They are still common in many parts of the country, but also rare and absent in some areas where they were abundant before. Together with tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandia) bellbirds are responsible for avian pollination of several native plants in New Zealand. Habitat fragmentation and geographical constraints prevent bellbirds from re-occupying formerly inhabited areas. After translocations birds often disperse; some just disappear, some are thought to fly back to their source site and probably many die. Supplementary feeding provides energy rich food, which helps to ensure birds are well-nourished until they can discover natural food sources at the release sites. Conspecific song playback as an attractant for many bird species can be used as public information about high habitat value and additionally lure birds to good food sources and nest sites. Artificial feeding stations were set up at 18 locations in Kennedy's Bush, Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand. Feeders filled with sugar water were available for five to six consecutive days and during observation hours the effect of song playback was tested. Variation in bird numbers resulting from experimental treatments was recorded using five-minute bird counts prior to treatments and additional counts every minute of observation time. Bellbird numbers varied strongly with habitat types, showing highest numbers for dense and tall bush areas and close to creeks and lowest for open areas besides pasture and in post-flowering flax fields. Bellbird numbers increased when song was broadcast, with the strongest effect in areas where bellbird numbers were moderate or low, but not in areas where bellbirds were absent. Feeding stations were not observed to be used by bellbirds. The strong response in bellbird numbers to conspecific song playback proved the attractiveness of song for bellbirds. Nevertheless, its function as a lure for bellbirds to artificial feeding stations was not shown. This contrasting result indicates that the use of bellbird song as an enticement for bellbirds has to be investigated further.
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De, Bourcier P. G. R. "Synthetic behavioural ecology." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360517.

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com, lroarty@bigpond, and Lynn Ann Roarty. "The 'Vampires in the Sacristy': Feminist body theory and (socio)biological reductionism into the 21st century." Murdoch University, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20091027.70346.

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What happens when feminist body theory and reductionist theories of biological sex difference are brought together? In this work I take as my starting point the increasing ubiquity of appeals to biology as an explanation for ‘human’ and ‘woman’s’ nature on the one hand, and the reactive and reflexive distancing of biology within feminist body theory on the other, to begin to question the middle ground. I aim to constructively dissent from taking up either of these positions in order to confront the question: what if the reductionists prove to be, even partially, right? In acknowledging that possibility, I am interested in whether/where there is potential for feminist theory to be more relaxed about biologically sex differentiated attributes. I position myself as a women’s studies scholar taking a walk across the campus to see what evidence is being produced by ‘the opposition’. To place my walk in context, I first briefly explore various feminist approaches to the problem of biological sex differences, and the continuing difficulties surrounding binaries and binary thinking. Next, in the main part of the thesis, I review the historical and contemporary reasoning and claims made within three areas of reductionist science that are aligning at this time, and which have been reproached for promoting a return to a more biologically determinist social environment. I then take a brief excursion off campus to demonstrate the dangerous aspects of these scientific enterprises when their interpretation into popular culture is not carefully monitored. Finally, I return again to my own side of the campus to look at some of the ways feminists have already begun the work of overturning outworn and contested conventional theories about biology and human nature in conversation with reductionist theory. Having done this, was it worth the walk? My assessment is that while, in some cases, feminism’s defensive antiessentialism is warranted, there is work being undertaken within these reductionist sciences that is less rigid and reactionary than some critical interpretation would suggest. I conclude that there is a certain futility in feminist body theory’s oppositional stance to biology, and that its utility is put at risk by a continued investment in one side of a binary. Further, my walk across the campus leads me to believe that, while perhaps not imminent, there is every reason to expect that the scientific pursuit of an unequivocal genetic basis for specific sex differentiated behaviours will succeed. That being so, there are spaces where the insights of both sides might be productively brought together so as to avoid the worst excesses of biological determinism and, at the same time, loosen the grip of binary thinking on approaches to biology and the body.
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McCormick, Joseph. "Information cascades in behavioural ecology." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28578.

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In ecology, information cascades have been used to explain a variety of collective behaviours, including mate selection, anti-predatory responses, and social foraging. Taxonomically diverse, information cascades occur in many group-living animals, including ant colonies, schools of fish, bird flocks, and social mammals. In this thesis, I studied the form and function of information cascades that drive a wide variety of group-level behaviours. In chapter one, I surveyed and reviewed the published literature regarding information cascades in biological systems. I discuss a selection of past studies to illustrate the diversity of information cascades, highlighting the adaptive significance and fitness consequences of different cascade types. I build a conceptual framework inspired by the variation in outcome and structure of information cascades elicited under different environmental or informational conditions. In chapter two, I experimentally tested the impact of maladaptive information cascades on the foraging performance of ants (Pheidole rugosula). Here, I introduced misinformation into foraging networks and measured the ants’ ability to re-establish foraging activity. I find that colonies readily recover and maintain robust foraging efforts when faced with erroneous social information. Overall, I find that information cascades drive critical collective behaviours in a diverse range of animal taxa. I also find that P. rugosula avoids significant maladaptive cascades despite the introduction of misinformation into their foraging networks. Information cascades warrant further research to improve our understanding of their role in nature and to decipher potential insights into managing information cascades in human systems.
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Clegg, Mark Robert. "Behavioural ecology of freshwater phytoplanktonic flagellates." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403729.

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Marsh, Frances J. "The behavioural ecology of young baboons." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15097.

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It is hypothesised that young baboons are potentially vulnerable to the effects of seasonal stress. Data were collected on the behaviour of this age group during a 12 month field study of a troop of olive baboons (Papio anubis) on the Laikipia plateau, Kenya, using a hand-held computer and a new program written by the author. Long-term environmental records for this site were continued. At this site there is a seasonal pattern of rainfall with inter-annual variation. Measures of biomass indicate that there are seasonal fluctuations in baboon food availability. Patterns in the occurrence of one component of the baboon's diet, Acacia species, are presented. The varying behaviour of the troop as a whole is related to food availability. Differential use of the home range and observed sub-trooping behaviour are interpreted as adaptive strategies for living in a seasonal environment. Developmental change in the behaviour associated with the mother-offspring relationship is described. Patterns in the time spent in contact with and close proximity to the mother from this site are compared with those from other sites, and striking similarities are found. Many of the behavioural activities of infants and young juveniles, i.e. feeding, moving, types of exploring, visually attending, grooming, and receiving affiliative approaches, exhibit patterns of developmental change. Interactions between activities are examined in the context of the complete activity budget. The effect of seasonal stress on young baboons is examined by using a technique of curve fitting. Data are compared between periods of higher and lower food availability. Significantly more time is spent feeding and less time spent in social and attending activities in the 'worst' than the 'best' months. Young baboons vary their diets seasonally. There is evidence that older infants (weanlings) are more vulnerable to the impact of seasonal stress than either young infants or young juveniles.
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Dowling, Damian Kimon. "Behavioural ecology of the red-capped robin." Connect to thesis, 2004. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000798.

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Robinson, Mark Francis. "The behavioural ecology of the serotine bat." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334221.

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Books on the topic "Sociobiology and behavioural ecology"

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V, Standen, and Foley Robert, eds. Comparative socioecology: The behavioural ecology of humans and other mammals. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1989.

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Social behaviour: Genes, ecology and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Danchin, Etienne. Behavioural ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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1955-, Giraldeau Luc-Alain, and Cézilly Frank, eds. Behavioural ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Felicity, Huntingford, and Torricelli Patrizia 1949-, eds. Behavioural ecology of fishes. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood, 1993.

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Lendrem, Dennis. Modelling in Behavioural Ecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6.

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Ecology and sociobiology of Indian primates. Bangalore: Dynaram Publications, 1995.

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Sudd, John H. The behavioural ecology of ants. Glasgow: Blackie, 1987.

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1952-, Davies N. B., ed. An introduction to behavioural ecology. 2nd ed. Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates, 1987.

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Sudd, John H. The behavioural ecology of ants. Glasgow: Blackie, 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sociobiology and behavioural ecology"

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Bakthavatsalam, N., P. L. Tandon, and Deepa Bhagat. "Trichogrammatids: Behavioural Ecology." In Biological Control of Insect Pests Using Egg Parasitoids, 77–103. New Delhi: Springer India, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1181-5_5.

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Sudd, John H., and Nigel R. Franks. "Ant Ecology." In The Behavioural Ecology of Ants, 161–87. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3123-7_8.

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Negro, Juan José, and Ismael Galván. "Behavioural Ecology of Raptors." In Birds of Prey, 33–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_2.

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FitzGerald, G. J., and R. J. Wootton. "Behavioural Ecology of Sticklebacks." In The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes, 409–32. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8261-4_16.

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Boran, James R., Peter G. H. Evans, and Martin J. Rosen. "Behavioural Ecology of Cetaceans." In Marine Mammals, 197–242. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0529-7_5.

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Lendrem, Dennis. "Introduction." In Modelling in Behavioural Ecology, 1–6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_1.

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Lendrem, Dennis. "Mathematical Methods." In Modelling in Behavioural Ecology, 7–34. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_2.

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Lendrem, Dennis. "Optimising a Single Behaviour 1: Optimal Foraging Theory." In Modelling in Behavioural Ecology, 35–57. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_3.

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Lendrem, Dennis. "Optimising a Single Behaviour 2: Stochastic Models of Foraging Behaviour." In Modelling in Behavioural Ecology, 58–82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_4.

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Lendrem, Dennis. "Temporal Patterns: Vigilance in Birds." In Modelling in Behavioural Ecology, 83–102. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sociobiology and behavioural ecology"

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Cherkashin, Evgeny O. "The Field Of Ecology As A Complex Of Statuses And Subjective Positions." In 7th icCSBs 2018 - The Annual International Conference on Cognitive - Social, and Behavioural Sciences. Cognitive-Crcs, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.02.02.50.

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"Detection of significant changes in short time series: applications to the analysis of annual routines in behavioural ecology and to the analysis of breaks in abundance." In 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ), Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36334/modsim.2011.e11.bru.

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