The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour

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Theunis Piersma and Jan A van Gils

256 pages, 120 black and white illustrations.

Oxford University Press

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Hardcover | 2010 | #187389 | ISBN-13: 9780199233724

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Softcover | 2010 | #187390 | ISBN-13: 9780199597246

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1. Introduction PART I - BASICS OF ORGANISMAL DESIGN 2. Maintaining the Balance of Heat, Water, Nutrients, and Energy 3. Symmorphosis: Principle and Limitations of Economic Design; PART II - ADDING ENVIRONMENT 4. Metabolic Ceilings: the Ecology of Physiological Restraint 5. Phenotypic Plasticity: Matching Phenotypes to Environmental Demands PART III - ADDING BEHAVIOUR 6. Optimal Behaviour: Currencies and Constraints 7. Optimal Foraging: the Dynamic Choice Between Diets, Feeding Patches, and Gut Sizes PART IV - TOWARDS A FULLY INTEGRATED VIEW 8. Beyond the Physical Balance: Disease and Predation 9. Population Consequences: Conservation and Management of Flexible Phenotypes 10. Evolution in Five Dimensions: Phenotypes First! References Index

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