The Allee effect describes a scenario in which populations at low numbers are affected by a
positive relationship between population growth rate and density, which increases their …

Recent long-term studies of population ecology of large herbivorous mammals suggest that
survival of prime-aged females varies little from year to year and across populations …

This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text
has been completely revised, with new chapters and many new illustrations and full colour …

Recent patterns of global change have highlighted the importance of understanding the
dynamics and mechanisms of species range shifts and expansions. Unique demographic …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from
solitary-dwelling species to two" eusocial" species, the Damaraland mole-rat and the naked …

Some individuals (helpers) in cooperatively breeding species provide alloparental care and
often suppress their own reproduction. Kin selection is clearly an important explanation for …

The variation in the acoustic structure of alarm calls appears to convey information about the
level of response urgency in some species, while in others it seems to denote the type of …

Like humans engaged in risky activities, group members of some animal societies take turns
acting as sentinels. Explanations of the evolution of sentinel behavior have frequently relied …