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Informationen zum Autor Ian C. W. Hardy is an Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, UK. Mark Briffa is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Marine Science and Engineering at Plymouth University, UK. Klappentext Covers contest behaviour in detail from theoretical and empirical perspectives and across a wide range of species. Zusammenfassung Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing key questions on contest behaviour! this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species! from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Foreword Geoff Parker; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to animal contests Mark Briffa and Ian C. W. Hardy; 2. Dyadic contests: modelling fights between two individuals Hanna Kokko; 3. Models of group or multi-party contests Tom N. Sherratt and Mike Mesterton-Gibbons; 4. Analysis of animal contest data Mark Briffa, Ian C. W. Hardy, Martin P. Gammell, Dómhnall J. Jennings, David Clarke and Marlène Goubault; 5. Contests in crustaceans: assessments, decisions and their underlying mechanisms Mark Briffa; 6. Aggression in spiders Robert W. Elwood and John Prenter; 7. Contest behaviour in butterflies: fighting without weapons Darrell J. Kemp; 8. Hymenopteran contests and agonistic behaviour Ian C. W. Hardy, Marlène Goubault and Tim P. Batchelor; 9. Horns and the role of development in the evolution of beetle contests Emilie C. Snell-Rood and Armin P. Moczek; 10. Contest behaviour in fishes Ryan L. Earley and Yuying Hsu; 11. Contests in amphibians Mandy L. Dyson, Michael S. Reichert and Tim R. Halliday; 12. Lizards and other reptiles as model systems for the study of contest behaviour Troy A. Baird; 13. Bird contests: from hatching to fertilisation Sarah R. Pryke; 14. Contest behaviour in ungulates Dómhnall J. Jennings and Martin P. Gammell; 15. Human contests: evolutionary theory and the analysis of interstate war Scott A. Field and Mark Briffa; 16. Prospects for animal contests Mark Briffa, Ian C. W. Hardy and Sophie L. Mowles; Index....
