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Second edition

Dordrecht : Springer, [2010]

xiii, 514 stran : ilustrace (některé barevné), mapy, portréty ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-90-481-2388-9 (vázáno)

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Contents // The History and Scope of Insect Behavior... 1 // 1.1 Introduction... I // III What Is Insect Behavior?... I // 1.1.2 Insect Behavior’s Biological Context... 3 // 1.1.3 Historical Foundations... 6 // 1. 1.4 The Watershed Years... 9 // 1. 1.5 The Rise of Ethology... 13 // 1.2 Conceptual Frameworks... 13 // 1.2.1 Evolution by Natural Selection... 13 // 1.2.2 Genetics and Behavior ... 17 // 1.2.3 The Comparative Approach... 24 // 1.2.4 Conceptual Pitfalls... 23 // 1.3 Phylogeny’s Role... 28 // 1.3.1 Microevolution and Macroevolution... 28 // 1.3.2 Phylogenetic Systematics and Cladistics... 33 // 1.3.3 Behavior and Speciation ... 36 // 1.4 Questions and Perspectives... 38 // 1.4.1 Proximate and Ultimate Analyses... 40 // 1.4.2 Types of Approach ... 41 // Programming and Integrating Behavior... 45 // 2.1 Introduction... 45 // 2.2 Nerve-Based Coordination... 46 // 2.2.1 The Insect Nervous System... 47 // 2.2.2 Simple Reflexes and Repeated Motor Patterns... 50 // 2.2.3 Ethological Explanations... 56 // 2.3 Life in a Stimulus-Rich World... 59 // 2.3.1 Sensory Tuning and Filtering... 60 // 2.3.2 Memory and Learning... 68 // 2.3.3 Insect Intelligence... 81 // 2.4 Hormone-Based Coordination... 83 // 2.4.1 Clocks and Reiterative Rhythms... 86 // 2.4.2 Gated Rhythms... 88 // 3 Spatial Adjustment... 93 // 3.1 Introduction... 93 // 3.2 Locomotion... 94 // 3.2.1 Terrestrial and Aquatic Locomotion... 96 // 3.2.2 Aerial Locomotion ... 98 // 3.3 Orientation... 100 // 3.3.1 Locomotory

Responses... 101 // 3.3.2 Posture and Position... 103 // 3.3.3 Orientation to Radiant Energy ... 105 // 3.3.4 Magnetic Field Orientation... 108 // 3.3.5 Orientation to the Evidence of Others’Presence ... 109 // 3.4 Thermoregulation... 110 // 3.4.1 Dormancy and Thermotolerance... 110 // 3.4.2 Regulation of Heat Gain ... 113 // 3.4.3 Heat Production... 114 // 3.5 Migration... 116 // 3.5.1 Seasonal Migration... 117 // 3.5.2 Migration Under Ephemeral Conditions... 122 // 3.5.3 Dispersal and Navigation... 124 // 4 Foraging and Feeding ... 131 // 4.1 Introduction... 131 // 4.1.1 Food Recognition and Acceptance... 134 // 4.1.2 Regulation of Feeding... 137 // 4.2 Foraging Strategies... 140 // 4.2. Г Herbivory... 141 // 4.2.2 Active Search... 141 // 4.2.3 Trapping and Ambush... 146 // 4.2.4 Parasites and Parasitoids... 148 // 4.2.5 Theft and Kleptoparasitism... 152 // 4.2.6 Insect Agriculture... 154 // 4.2.7 Nest Symbionts: Becoming a House Pel... 157 // 4.3 Coevolution and the Arms Race... 164 // 4.3.1 Attack. Defense, and Counterattack... 165 // 4.3.2 Employing Mercenaries for Protection... 170 // 4.3.3 The Tommy Tucker Syndrome: Food in Return // for Services... 173 // 4.4 Feeding as a Communal Activity... 177 // 4.4.1 Simple Groups and Feeding Aggregations... 177 // 4.4.2 Social Feeding Behaviors... 181 // 5 Defense: A Survival Catalogue ... 185 // 5.1 Introduction... 185 // 5.2 Defense Messages... 186 // 5.3 Passive Messages... 187 // 5.3,1 Crypsis: i’m Not Here!’... 187

5.3.2 Systemic Defenses:‘I’m Noxious!’... 194 // 5.3.3 Mimicry:‘I’m Someone Else!’... 197 // 5.3.4 Aposematic Defenses:’I’m Dangerous!’... 202 // 5.4 Active Messages... 204 // 5.4.1 Attack:‘I’m Turning the Tables!’... 204 // 5.4.2 Startle: ‘I’m Not What You Thought!’... 209 // 5.4.3 Group Actions:‘We’re in This Together!’ ... 213 // 6 Chemical Communication... 217 // 6.1 Introduction... 217 // 6.2 Mechanisms of Chemical Communication... 217 // 6.2.1 Odor Creation and Reception... 218 // 6.2.2 Communication Through Chemistry... 223 // 6.3 The Functions of Chemical Communication... 227 // 6.3.1 Finding and Choosing Mates... 228 // 6.3.2 Assembly. Aggregation, and Recruitment ... 231 // 6.3.3 Alarm and Alert... 240 // 6.3.4 Host-Marking... 242 // 6.3.5 Recognition... 246 // 6.4 The Information Content of Pheromones ... 249 // 6.4.1 Physiological Adjustments: The Q/K Ratio... 249 // 6.4.2 Pheromones as Language: Syntax and Lexicon... 251 // 6.4.3 Exploitation and Code-Breaking... 255 // 6.4.4 The Chemical Channel and Other Signal Modes ... 256 // 6.5 Chemical Communication and Insect Control... 258 // 7 Visual Communication... 261 // 7.1 Introduction... 261 // 7.2 Bioluminescence... 262 // 7.2.1 The Physiology of Insect Light Production... 263 // 7.2.2 Bioluminescence as a Communication Method... 264 // 7.3 Light Reception... 268 // 7.3.1 Receptors and Form Perception... 268 // 7.3.2 Visual Acuity and Flicker Vision... 272 // 7.3.3 Polarized Light

Perception... 275 // 7.3.4 Color Vision... 277 // 7.4 Functions of Visual Communication... 279 // 7.4.1 Aggregation and Dispersion ... 281 // 7.4.2 Alarm... 283 // 7.4.3 Sexual Signals... 284 // 7.4.4 Multimodal Signaling... 288 // 8 Mechanocommunication... 291 // 8.1 Introduction... 291 // 8.2 Producing and Sending Signals ... 292 // 8.2.1 Sound Creation... 293 // 8.2.2 Distance and Substrate... 295 // 8.3 Receiving Signals... 296 // 8.3.1 Vibration ... 298 // 8.3.2 Hearing... 303 // 8.3.3 Communication by Touch... 305 // 8.4 The Acoustic Channel... 307 // 8.4.1 Parameters of Insect Song... 307 // 8.4.2 Song Synchronies... 308 // 8.4.3 Active Acoustics ... 311 // 8.4.4 Sound as a Communication Method ... 313 // 8.5 Functions of Insect Communicative Sounds... 314 // 8.5.1 Protest. Alarm, and Aggression... 314 // 8.5.2 Aposematic Sounds and Acoustic Mimicry... 319 // 8.5.3 Sexual Signals... 321 // 8.5.4 Social Sounds... 327 // 9 Reproductive Behavior... 341 // 9.1 Introduction... 341 // 9.2 Courtship and Mating ... 342 // 9.2.1 The Physiology of Mating Behavior... 344 // 9.2.2 Reproduetion Modes... 346 // 9.2.3 Complexity and Plasticity... 349 // 9.2.4 Pollination and Male Reproductive Behavior... 354 // 9.3 Courtship and Conflict... 359 // 9.3.1 Dimorphism, Sexual Selection, and Mate Choice . . . 361 // 9.3.2 Intrasexual Competition... 369 // 9.3.3 Territoriality and Dominance... 371 // 9.3.4 Nuptial Ciifts... 372 // 9.4 Mating Systems and Parental Investment ... 380 // 9.5 Oviposition

Behavior... 382 // 9.5.1 Selecting a Site or Host... 383 // 9.5.2 Reproductive Rates and Energy Allocation... 387 // 10 Parental Behaviors and Social Life... 389 // 10.1 Introduction... 389 // 10.2 Social Organization... 390 // 10.2.1 Aggregations and Simple Groups... 390 // 10.2.2 Parenl-Offspring Interactions... 394 // 10.2.3 Solitary and Communal Nesters ... 400 // 10.3 The Insect Social Register... 407 // 10.3.1 The Ants... 410 // 10.3.2 The Eusocial Wasps... 416 // 10.3.3 The Bees... 420 // 10.3.4 The Termites ... 423 // 10.3.5 Lesser Known Candidates... 427 // 10.4 Implications and Correlates of Social Life... 428 // 10.4.1 The Ecology of Parental Care... 430 // 10.4.2 Paradoxes of Insect Sociality... 434 // 10.4.3 Interspecific Social Interactions... 440 // Credits... 445 // Plates... 463 // Index... 503