In behavioral ecology, adaptive behavior is any behavior that contributes directly or indirectly to an individual's reproductive success, and is thus...

of behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological...

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) or human evolutionary ecology applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimization to the study of human behavioral...

The ecology of adaptive radiation. Oxford University Press, 2000. Seehausen, O (2004). "Hybridization and adaptive radiation". Trends in Ecology & Evolution...

A complex adaptive system is a system that is complex in that it is a dynamic network of interactions, but the behavior of the ensemble may not be predictable...

organizational studies research focused on adaptive change in organizations (See also adaptive management and adaptive performance). The ecological approach...

modifying their habitat. Hypotheses posited in behavioural ecology are generally based on adaptive principles of conservation, optimization, or efficiency...

suggestion it is an innate mechanism. Psychology portal Adaptive behavior (ecology) Adaptive bias Adjustment (psychology) Cognitive module Dual inheritance...

The main subfields of evolutionary ecology are life history evolution, sociobiology (the evolution of social behavior), the evolution of interspecific interactions...

viewing behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviorism is a term that also describes the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, usually...

also References External links abiotic component adaptive behavior In behavioral ecology, any behavior which contributes to an individual's reproductive...

proposition of the adaptive market hypothesis. Adaptive expectations Agent-based computational economics Behavioral economics Behavioral Strategy Financial...

Several hypotheses to explain this seemingly paradoxical behavior have been proposed. The adaptive foraging hypothesis, aggressive spillover hypothesis and...

may also contribute to or hinder the development of collective behavior. Complex Adaptive Systems theory – Dutch scholar Jaap van Ginneken claims that contagion...

Loïc (Nov 2007). "Modification of hosts' behavior by a parasite: field evidence for adaptive manipulation". Ecology. 88 (11): 2839–2847. doi:10.1890/06-2105...

exposure to dirt and pathogens. Some of these behaviors are adaptive while others are learned. Basic behaviors of disgust evolved as an adaptation to prevent...

"'anting' as food preparation: formic acid is worse on an empty stomach". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 31: 437–439. Simmons, K.E.L (2009). "Anting and...

functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms...

alternatives, and current adaptive value". pp. 94–115. In: Choe, J.C. & B.J. Crespi. 1997. [Eds.] The evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids...

to as an ecological organisation concept, or as the field, hierarchical ecology. Each level in the hierarchy represents an increase in organisational complexity...

only be determined after the event. Adaptive evolution in the human genome Adaptive memory Adaptive mutation Adaptive system Anti-predator adaptation Body...

Eusociality". Behavioral Ecology. 6: 109–115. doi:10.1093/beheco/6.1.109. Batra, Suzanne W. T. (1 September 1966). "Nests and Social Behavior of Halictine...

of biodiversity, species-area relationships, and many questions in behavioral ecology). It is virtually synonymous with the field of "Ecological Genetics"...

is a former academic researcher. He was an Associate Professor of behavioral ecology and Canada 150 Research Chair in Biological Dystopias at McMaster...

ecology and ethology. Specifically, her research has centered on behavioral ecology, habitat selection, animal personality, plasticity in lizard communication...

(2009) [1975]. "Ecology of a Feral Dog Pack on a Wildlife Refuge". In Fox, Michael W. (ed.). Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology & Evolution...

branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment where the animal lives. Behavioral ecologists...

and her lab also research how memory length is an evolutionarily adaptive behavior through studies on bumblebees, blue jays, and pinyon jays. "Aimee...

vegetation ecology, migratory ecology, landscape diversity, sociobiology, the growth and decline of ancient civilizations, evolution of ethnocentric behavior, forced...

jump to an 'adaptive zone', made available by virtue of some modification, or possibly a change in the food chain, that made the adaptive zone available...