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Floral Mimicry
Author | : Steven D. Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0198732694 |
Thie is the first definitive book on floral mimicry, providing a wider treatise on floral adaptation and plant evolution.
Avoiding Attack
Author | : Graeme D. Ruxton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004-10-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198528590 |
This book discusses the evolution of the mechanisms by which prey avoid attack by their potential predators and questions how such defences are maintained through natural selection. Topics covered include camouflage, warning signals and mimicry.
Insect Evolutionary Ecology
Author | : Royal Entomological Society of London. Symposium |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781845931407 |
Insects provide excellent model systems for understanding evolutionary ecology. They are abundant, small, and relatively easy to rear, and these traits facilitate both field and laboratory experiments. This book has been developed from the Royal Entomological Society's 22nd international symposium, held in Reading in 2003. Topics include speciation and adaptation; life history, phenotype plasticity and genetics; sexual selection and reproductive biology; insect-plant interactions; insect-natural enemy interactions; and social insects.
Cheats and Deceits
Author | : Martin Stevens |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0198707894 |
Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host's own clutch.
Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Author | : Timo Maran |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2017-01-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319503170 |
The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Floral Mimicry
Author | : Steven Johnson (Professor) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Camouflage (Biology) |
ISBN | : 9780191796975 |
This text on floral mimicry discusses the functions of visual, olfactory, and tactile signals, integrating them into a broader theory of organismal mimicry that will help guide future research in the field. It addresses the fundamental question of whether the evolutionary and ecological principles that were developed for protective mimicry in animals can also be applied to floral mimicry in plants. The work also deals with the functions of floral rewardlessness, a condition which often serves as a precursor to the evolution of mimicry in plant lineages.
Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications
Author | : M. Eric Benbow |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1466575476 |
Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryDecomposition and recycling of vertebrate remains have been understudied, hampered largely due to these processes being aesthetically challenging (e.g., smell and sight). Technological innovations have provided the means to explore new and historically understo
Evolution's Wedge
Author | : David Pfennig |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520954041 |
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains controversial and largely underappreciated. In their synthetic and provocative book, evolutionary ecologists David and Karin Pfennig explore competition's role in generating and maintaining biodiversity. The authors discuss how selection can lessen resource competition or costly reproductive interactions by promoting trait evolution through a process known as character displacement. They further describe character displacement’s underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms. The authors then consider character displacement’s myriad downstream effects, ranging from shaping ecological communities to promoting new traits and new species and even fueling large-scale evolutionary trends. Drawing on numerous studies from natural populations, and written for a broad audience, Evolution’s Wedge seeks to inspire future research into character displacement’s many implications for ecology and evolution.
Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive Resemblances
Author | : Donald L. J. Quicke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 111893153X |
Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance Full colour Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful Includes, animals, plants, micro-organisms and humans