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Perturbation, Behavioural Feedbacks, and Population Dynamics in Social Animals: When to leave and where to go by Daniel Oro

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This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals, including ourselves. Social responses to perturbations, especially dispersal processes, can also generate non-linear population dynamics, including the potential appearance of tipping points and critical population transitions, which can in turn lead to catastrophic shifts and collapses. The book describes the links between social behaviour (mainly the use of social information and social copying), and non-linear population dynamics at different spatial scales (local dynamics and meta-population dynamics), and their ecological and evolutionary consequences. Examples from the natural world illustrate each of the main themes (prospecting, habitat suitability, collective dispersal, and cultural evolution). Human warfare and conflict, referred to in several chapters together with quantitative and qualitative examples, is also viewed as a form of perturbation and represents a paradigmatic example of the rationale behind this book. This applicability to our own species is particularly timely, given increased interest in both ecosystem change, human migration, and the global refugee crisis. Perturbation, Behavioural Feedbacks, and Population Dynamics in Social Animals will appeal to applied, theoretical, and evolutionary ecologists, particularly those working on the population and behavioural ecology of any social animal including humans. Its overlap with the study of complexity will also ensure its relevance and use to scientists from other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, physics, computational science, economics, and mathematics.

About the Author
Daniel Oro is Professor of Research at CSIC, the largest research body in Spain. He founded the Population Ecology Group to attract researchers interested in quantitative ecology, evolution and conservation of threatened species. He is now a member of the Theoretical and Computational Ecology Laboratory at CEAB. For the past thirty years, he has used long-term data to study animal demography to unravel the processes driving the complex population dynamics of a range of species, from butterflies and fat dormouses to seabirds and dolphins.

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If you want an insight into how simple interactions can lead to fascinating non-linear population dynamics, you will very much enjoy this book. I also think it would make a good introduction to various ideas in complexity theory for population ecologists. * David Fisher, ISBE Newsletter *
Oro brings new insights on the importance of behavior for population processes. More importantly, he illustrates, using both empirical examples and simulations, how behavioral feedback in social species may lead to different population trajectories resulting from nonlinear responses in population dynamics . . . the book should be a fascinating read for graduate students and researchers interested in linking behavior and population dynamics and brings an intriguing perspective on the importance of social behavior for forecasting the fate of wild populations facing global changes. * Fanie Pelletier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada, The Quarterly Review of Biology *



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ISBN 9780198849834
Author Daniel Oro
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 548g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 192mm * 14mm

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