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    Beauchamp, Guy
    出版 2014
    主題 ...Predation (Biology)...
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    Waldbauer, Gilbert
    出版 2012
    書本目錄 ...Insects in the web of life -- The eaters of insects -- Fleeing and staying under cover -- Hiding in plain sight -- Bird dropping mimicry and other disguises -- Flash colors and eyespots -- Safety in numbers -- Defensive weapons and warning signals -- The predators' countermeasures -- Protection by deception....
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    Mulgan, Geoff
    出版 2013
    書本目錄 ...After capitalism -- Barren and pregnant crises -- The essence of capitalism -- To take or to make : the roles of predators and creators -- Capitalism's critics -- Anticapitalist utopias and neotopias -- The nature of change : how one system becomes another -- Creative and predatory technology -- The rise of economies based on relationships and maintenance -- Capitalism's generative ideas -- New accommodations, or how societies (occasionally) jump -- Outgrowing capitalism....
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    Begon, Michael
    出版 2006
    書本目錄 ...Organisms in their environments: the evolutionary backdrop -- Conditions -- Resources -- Life, death and life histories -- Intraspecific competition -- Dispersal, dormancy and metapopulations -- Ecological applications at the level of organisms and single-species populations: restoration, biosecurity and conservation -- Interspecific competition -- The nature of predation -- The population dynamics of predation -- Decomposers and detritivores -- Parasitism and disease -- Symbiosis and mutualism -- Abundance -- Ecological applications at the level of population interactions: pest control and harvest management -- The nature of the community: patterns in space and time -- The flux of energy through ecosystems -- The flux of matter through ecosystems -- The influence of population interactions on community structure -- Food webs -- Patterns in species richness -- Ecological applications at the level of communities and ecosystems: management based on the theory of succession, food webs, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity....
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    書本目錄 ...; Phenotypic plasticity: climate change and breeding times; Behaviour, ecology and evolution; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 2: Testing Hypotheses in Behavioural Ecology; The comparative approach; Breeding behaviour of gulls in relation to predation risk; Social organization of weaver birds; Social organization in African ungulates.; Limitations of early comparative studiesComparative approach to primate ecology and behaviour; Using phylogenies in comparative analysis; The comparative approach reviewed; Experimental studies of adaptation; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 3: Economic Decisions and the Individual; The economics of carrying a load; The economics of prey choice; Sampling and information; The risk of starvation; Environmental variability, body reserves and food storing; Food storing birds: from behavioural ecology to neuroscience; The evolution of cognition; Feeding and danger: a trade-off; Social learning.; Optimality models and behaviour: an overviewSummary; Further reading; CHAPTER 4: Predators versus Prey: Evolutionary Arms Races; Red Queen evolution; Predators versus cryptic prey; Enhancing camouflage; Warning colouration: aposematism; Mimicry; Trade-offs in prey defences; Cuckoos versus hosts; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 5: Competing for Resources; The Hawk-Dove game; Competition by exploitation: the ideal free distribution; Competition by resource defence: the despotic distribution; The ideal free distribution with unequal competitors; The economics of resource defence.; Producers and scroungersAlternative mating strategies and tactics; ESS thinking; Animal personalities; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 6: Living in Groups; How grouping can reduce predation; How grouping can improve foraging; Evolution of group living: shoaling in guppies; Group size and skew; Group decision making; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 7: Sexual Selection, Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict; Males and females; Parental investment and sexual competition; Why do females invest more in offspring care than do males?...
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    Thomas, Jim
    出版 2005
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    Douard, John
    出版 2013
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    Schmitz, Oswald J.
    出版 2010
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