The flexible phenotype: a body-centred integration of ecology, physiology, and behaviour
Piersma, Theunis
van Gils, Jan A
This book attempts a true synthesis of animal physiology, behaviour, and ecology by developing an empirical argument that describes the intimate connections between animal phenotype and environment, using the results of a long-term research programme on migrant shorebirds and their invertebrate prey. INDICE: 1: Introduction; Part I - Basics of Organismal Design; 2: Maintaining the Balance of Heat, Water, Nutrients, and Energy; 3: Symmorphosis: Principle and Limitations of Economic Design; Part II - Adding Environment; 4: Metabolic Ceilings: the Ecology of Physiological Restraint; 5: Phenotypic Plasticity: Matching Phenotypes to Environmental Demands; Part III - Adding Behaviour; 6: Optimal Behaviour: Currencies and Constraints; 7: Optimal Foraging: the Dynamic Choice Between Diets, Feeding Patches, and Gut Sizes; Part IV - Towards a Fully Integrated View; 8: Beyond the Physical Balance: Disease and Predation; 9: Population Consequences: Conservation and Management of Flexible Phenotypes; 10: Evolution in Five Dimensions: Phenotypes First!; References; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923372-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés