Using optimality perspectives is now regarded as an essential way of analysing and
understanding adaptations and behavioural strategies in bird migration. Optimization …

Recent shifts in phenology in response to climate change are well established but often
poorly understood. Many animals integrate climate change across a spatially and temporally …

It has been suggested that birds migrate faster in spring than in autumn because of
competition for arrival order at breeding grounds and environmental factors such as …

From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a
conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first …

Models of Adaptive Behaviour sets out a framework for adaptive explanations of behaviour,
and applies this to give analyses of a range of biological issues such as energetic gain …

The Flexible Phenotype attempts a true synthesis of physiology, behaviour, and ecology by
developing an empirical argument that describes the intimate connections between …

This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modeling
techniques, starting at" square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some …

In optimal foraging theory, search time is a key variable defining the value of a prey type. But
the sensory-perceptual processes that constrain the search for food have rarely been …

Migration is a task that implies a route, a goal and a period of time. To achieve this task, it
requires orientation abilities to find the goal and energy to cover the distance. Completing …

The full magnitude and complexity of bird migration have not been possible to grasp until
after the revolutionary discoveries made with the aid of, eg, ringing, systematic field …