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Social predation : how group living benefits predators and prey

Author: Guy Beauchamp; Ebooks Corporation.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was developed for solitary species. Various consequences of sociality for predators have been considered only recently. Similarly, while it was long recognized that prey species can  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Guy Beauchamp; Ebooks Corporation.
ISBN: 9780124076549 0124076548
OCLC Number: 876361468
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
Description: 1 online resource.
Contents: Finding and exploiting food in groups --
Producing and scrounging --
Antipredator ploys --
Antipredator vigilance : theory and testing the assumptions --
Antipredator vigilance : detection and the group-size effect --
The selfish herd --
Group size and composition --
Mixed-species groups --
Evolutionary issues.
Responsibility: Guy Beauchamp.

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Helps the reader understand current issues in social predation theory and provide a synthesis of the literature across a broad range of animal taxa. This title features analysis that allows a better  Read more...

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