Ecology of social evolution
By: Judith Korb, Ju rgen Heinze, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783642095078
Subjects: Animal ecology; Social behavior in animals; Social evolution; Social ecology
Notes: Originally published: c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution and ecology of cooperation - history and concepts / Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster; title: The ecology of altruism in a clonal insect / Nathan Pike and William A. Foster; title: The evolutionary ecology of eusociality in Australian gall thrips : a 'model clades' approach / Thomas W. Chapman, Bernard J. Crespi, and Scott P. Perry; title: The ecology and evolution of helping in hover wasps (Hymenoptera: Stenogastrinae) / Jeremy Field; title: Why are so many bees but so few digger wasps social? : the effect of provisioning mode and helper efficiency on the distribution of sociality among the Apoidea / Erhard Strohm and Ju rgen Liebig; title: Social plasticity : ecology, genetics, and the structure of ant societies / Ju rgen Heinze; title: The ecology of social evolution in termites / Judith Korb; title: Kin-recognition mechanisms in cooperative breeding systems : ecological causes and behavioral consequences of variation / Jan Komdeur, David S. Richardson, and Ben Hatchwell; title: Social ecology of horses / Konstanze Krueger; title: African mole-rats : eusociality, relatedness and ecological constraints / M. Justin O'Riain and Chris G. Faulkes; title: Genetic and ecological determinants of primate social systems / Peter M. Kappeler; title: The ecology of social life : a synthesis / Judith Korb and Ju rgen Heinze.