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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

Published:

Total Pages: 244

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New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology
New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology

Author: Crustacean Society. Summer Meeting

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9004174257

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This work contains the Proceedings of The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, in 2009, organized by Carcinological Society of Japan and The Crustacean Society. The presentations by internationally leading carcinologists represent major reviews of all areas of crustacean research.

Comparative Ecology
Comparative Ecology

Author: Y. Itô

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-03-12

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780521229777

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This 1980 book considers the patterns of population fluctuations of animals and intraspecific social relations by means of comparative methods and discusses the evolution of population regulation mechanisms and social relations. The author proposes that parental care has evolved in environments in which it is difficult for the young to obtain food, whilst high fecundity has evolved in the opposite environment. He presents evidence from a wide range of organisms to argue that during evolution animals repeatedly face the 'choice' of two strategies - low fecundity combined with parental protection, or high fecundity - and that this choice determined the amplitude, regularity and associated main factors of population fluctuations as well as the main characteristics of social relations as expressed in group life or dispersed living involving territory. Although many examples are drawn from insects, with which the author is most familiar, mammal, birds and other animal groups are also examined in depth.