Binding: Paperback
Description: Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks including finding food avoiding predators attracting mates and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment. Consequently they have evolved a staggering array of sensory organs that are fundamental to survival and reproduction and shape much of their evolution and behaviour. Sensory ecology deals with how animals acquire process and use information in their lives and the sensory systems involved. It investigates the type of information that is gathered by animals how it is used in a range of behaviours and the evolution of such traits. It deals with both mechanistic questions (e. g. how sensory receptors capture information from the environment and how the physical attributes of the environment affect information transmission) and functional questions (e. g. the adaptive significance of the information used by the animal to make a decision). Recent research has dealt more explicitly with how sensory systems are involved with and even drive evolutionary change including the formation of new species. Sensory Ecology Behaviour and Evolution provides a broad introduction to sensory ecology across a wide range of taxonomic groups covering all the various sensory modalities (e. g. sound visual chemical magnetic and electric) relating to diverse areas spanning anti - predator strategies foraging mate choice navigation and more with the aim being to illustrate key principles and differences. This accessible textbook is suitable for senior undergraduates graduate students and professional academics taking courses or conducting research in sensory ecology/biology neuroethology behavioural and evolutionary ecology communication and signalling. It will also be of relevance and use to psychologists interested in sensory information and behaviour.
Title: Sensory Ecology Behaviour And Evolution
Author(s): Stevens Martin (Centre For Ecology & Conservation University Of Exeter)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199601783
Pages: 260 Pages, 68 Colour Line Drawings, 45 Colour Halftones
Publication Date: 4/5/2013
Category: Animal Ecology