Behavioural Ecology of Fishes : Ettore Majorana International Life Sciences Series, - Raymond Bonnett

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Behavioural Ecology of Fishes

By: Raymond Bonnett, Huntingfordd, Felicity Anne Huntingford

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Hardcover | 23 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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This volume is based on the proceedings of a conference held in Sicily, in October 1991. It illustrates the developments in the field of behavioural ecology using fishes, with new or more sophisticated ideas and techniques that offer the potential of powerful analyses of selection on behaviour.

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Introduction to the Series
Preface
Behaviour, Ecology and Teleost Fishes	p. 1
Fish Behavioural Ecology: Pros, Cons and Opportunities	p. 7
Evolution of Adaptive Variation in Antipredator Behaviour	p. 29
The Development of Adaptive Variation in Predator Avoidance in Freshwater Fishes	p. 45
Learning Interactions between Prey and Predator Fish	p. 63
Conflicting Demands in Gobies: When to Eat, Reproduce, and Avoid Predators	p. 79
Choosing Prey Size: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Foraging Models for Predicting Prey Choice by Fish	p. 91
Factors Affecting the Behavioural Mechanisms of Diet Selection in Fishes	p. 105
Morphological Constraints on Behaviour through Ontogeny. The Importance of Developmental Constraints	p. 119
Whether or Not to Defend? The Influence of Resource Distribution	p. 137
The Puzzling Paucity of Feeding Territories among Freshwater Fishes	p. 155
Knowledge of Proximate Causes Aid Our Understanding of Function and Evolutionary History	p. 175
Behavioural Implications of Intraspecific Life History Variation	p. 187
Behavioural Causes and Consequences of Life History Variation in Fish	p. 205
Sex Role Reversal in a Pipefish	p. 219
The Importance of Male-Male Competition and Sexually Selected Dimorphic Traits for Male Reproductive Success in Site-attached Fishes with Paternal Care: The Case of the Freshwater Goby Padogobius martensi	p. 231
Male Competition, Female Mate Choice and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Poeciliid Fishes	p. 257
The Advantages of Being Red: Sexual Selection in the Stickleback	p. 287
Behavioural Organisation and the Evolution of Behavioural Strategies	p. 301
Species List	p. 317
Index	p. 321
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