Series: Monographs in Population Biology

Ecologists now recognise that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviours. Yet until now, we have lacked effective and flexible methods for modelling such dynamics. Traditional ecological models become impractical with the inclusion of behaviour, and the optimisation approaches of behavioural ecology cannot be used when future conditions are unpredictable due to feedbacks...

Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now, biogeography (the study of the geographic distribution of species) and biodiversity (the study of species richness and...

An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterflies. Throughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together his findings with recent advances in behavioural ecology to provide an incomparable look at the social lives of butterflies, illuminating for the first time the marvellously diverse range of butterfly behaviours across several...