Activity Patterns in Small Mammals : An Ecological Approach

N. C. Stenseth

ISBN 10: 354059244X / ISBN 13: 9783540592440

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high. Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Activity Patterns in Small Mammals : An Ecological Approach
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 354059244X
• ISBN 13: 9783540592440
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 24D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 688 grams

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Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high. Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis.