Quicke Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive Resemblances

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-118-93151-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance
* Full colour
* Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions
* Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful
* Includes, animals, plants, micro-organisms and humans

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quicke, Donald L. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MIMICRY SYSTEMS
2 CAMOUFLAGE: CRYPSIS AND DISRUPTIVE COLOURATION IN ANIMALS
3 CAMOUFLAGE: MASQUERADE
4 APOSEMATISM AND ITS EVOLUTION
5 ANTI-PREDATOR MIMICRY. I. MATHEMATICAL MODELS
6 ANTI-PREDATOR MIMICRY. II. EXPERIMENTAL TESTS
7 ANTI-PREDATOR MIMICRY. III. BATESIAN AND MULLERIAN EXAMPLES
8 ANTI-PREDATOR MIMICRY. ATTACK DEFLECTION, SCHOOLING, ETC.
9 ANTI-HERBIVORY DECEPTIONS
10 AGGRESSIVE DECEPTIONS
11 SEXUAL MIMICRIES IN ANIMALS (INCLUDING HUMANS)
12 REPRODUCTIVE MIMICRIES IN PLANTS
13 INTRA- AND INTERSPECIFIC COOPERATION, COMPETITION AND HIERARCHIES
14 ADAPTIVE RESEMBLANCES AND DISPERSAL: SEEDS, SPORES AND EGGS
15 MOLECULAR MIMICRY: PARASITES, PATHOGENS AND PLANTS
Extended glossary
References
Author index
General index
Taxonomic index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald L.J. Quicke retired in 2013 to live in Thailand where he is a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University. Hestudied zoology at Oxford University where he became especially interested in mimicry. In 1976 he travelled to Kenya to experience tropical biodiversity and more of the diversity of life and his work there on insect coloration fertilised his interests as well as on parasitoid wasps, another of his many passions. From then on he kept abreast of the increasingly experimental and theoretical developments in the field even though his academic research took him in diverse other directions. Having now retired he has been able devote his time, in addition to bird watching and butterfly photography, to synthesising and extending his interest in this topic. Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive Resemblances is the result of this work.