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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

biology, ecology, and genetics. Accordingly, the range of phenotypes studied by evolutionary physiologists is broad, including life history, behavior, whole-organism...

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

build ecological resilience through "resilience analysis, adaptive resource management, and adaptive governance". Ecological resilience has inspired other...

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...

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...

shift an entire population close to a new adaptive norm. As such, the ability to express some level of behavioral plasticity can be very advantageous. In...

conspecifics. The adaptive nature of this behavior has been supported by the analysis of theoretical models and also by the analyses of the behavioral repertoire...

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...

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

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

Groups, Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. and South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation...