Animals can congregate in groups for many reasons, from reproductive assurance to
improved foraging or predation efficiency, to avoiding themselves becoming the target of …

Dolphins live in complex social groupings with a wide variety of social strategies. In this
chapter we investigate the role that differing habitats and ecological conditions have played …

Behavioural innovations may have far-reaching evolutionary and ecological consequences,
allowing individuals to obtain new resources and cope with environmental change …

Transmission of infectious diseases is strongly influenced by who contacts whom. Despite
the global distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in free-living wild mammal populations, little is …

1. There is a clear need to increase our ability to predict the consequences of environmental
change. The seven main approaches that are currently used are: extrapolation, experiments …

Continuous-trait game theory fills the niche of enabling analytically solvable models of the
evolution of biologically realistically complex traits. Game theory provides a mathematical …

One important but understudied way in which climate change may impact the fitness of
individuals and populations is by altering the prevalence of infectious disease outbreaks …

Species in extreme habitats increasingly face changes in seasonal climate, but the
demographic mechanisms through which these changes affect population persistence …

Long-term studies of cooperatively breeding vertebrates offer excellent opportunities to test
theories about the evolution of cooperation and the demographic consequences of social …

Emerging infectious diseases have become an important challenge for wildlife ecologists
and managers. Management actions to control these diseases are usually directed at the …