
Social Predation
How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey
Description
Key Features
- Includes the whole taxonomical range rather than limiting it to a select few
- Features in-depth analysis that allows a better understanding of many subtleties surrounding the issues related to social predation
- Presents both models and empirical results while covering the extensive predator and prey literature
- Contains extensive illustrations and separate boxes that cover more technical features, i.e., to present models and review results
Readership
Researchers in animal behavior, ethology; evolutionary, behavioral and ecological biology and ecology; as well as advanced UG/graduate students and professors in these areas
Table of Contents
Preface
Part A: Predators
Chapter 1. Finding and Exploiting Food in Groups
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Benefits of Group Foraging
1.3 Costs of Group Foraging
1.4 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 2. Producing and Scrounging
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Definition
2.3 The Basic Producing and Scrounging Model
2.4 New Theoretical Developments
2.5 Empirical Evidence
2.6 Concluding Remarks
Part B: Prey
Chapter 3. Antipredator Ploys
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Antipredator Ploys
3.3 Are Antipredator Ploys Effective?
3.4 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 4. Antipredator Vigilance: Theory and Testing the Assumptions
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 What Vigilance Is and How It Is Measured
4.3 Theoretical Background
4.4 Validity of the Assumptions
4.5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 5. Antipredator Vigilance: Detection and the Group-Size Effect
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Increased Detection in Groups
5.3 Decreased Vigilance in Larger Groups
5.4 Vigilance When Predation Risk Is Negligible
5.5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 6. The Selfish Herd
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 New Theoretical Developments
6.3 Empirical Evidence
6.4 Concluding Remarks
Part C: General Considerations
Chapter 7. Group Size and Composition
Abstract
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Optimal Group Size
7.3 Group Composition
7.4 Proximate Mechanisms
7.5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 8. Mixed-Species Groups
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What Is a Mixed-Species Group?
8.3 The Formation of Mixed-Species Groups
8.4 Large-Scale Synthesis in Avian Flocks
8.5 Evolution of Traits Associated with Mixed-Species Groups
8.6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 9. Evolutionary Issues
Abstract
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Co-Evolution between Predators and Prey
9.3 Evolution of Social Predation
9.4 Concluding Remarks
Conclusion
What Have We Learned?
Where Do We Go from Here?
Predators
Prey
Predators and Prey
General Issues
Narrow Taxonomic Focus
Narrow Explanations
Narrow Assumptions
References
Index
Colour Plates
Product details
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: December 7, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780124076549
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124072282
About the Author
Guy Beauchamp
