Behavioral ecology

Shelby Coats-Lamberth 7/18/15 Chapter 33 Behavioral Ecology Many Scientist have done experiments to see if animals have certain ways of communicating with each other and learning. Scientists then were interested to see if the nature has anything to do with the way they learn and communicate. It is interesting enough to understand how animals relate with each other and their ways of learning from one another. In this chapter there are different ways at which scientists looked at the effects of imprinting

The Effect of Sound Intensity and Type on the Foraging Time of the House Cricket, Acheta domesticus. Brett Tung, 2017, Ecology (BIO 211), University of Puget Sound. The topic of interest was how instincts and perceptions affect the foragers through the ecology of fear. The aim was to look at if sound intensity and/ or sound type affects the foraging time of common house crickets. This was to see how foragers overall would react to a threat of predation (the sound). Using a simple maze and a speaker

predator and prey species in different risk environments is to determine if the prey will still be aware of predators due to remaining numbers, as well as other predators moving in, and if prey behavior will start to evolve a more lackadaisical behavioral pattern when predation levels decrease. Through the evaluation of current research studies of multiple prey-predator risk levels and antipredator responses, we can follow the trends of prey behaviors evolving. Results of much of current research

Chicago School of Social Ecology has played its vital role in the development of urban ecology theory as the sociologists and ecologists from aforementioned school such as Robert Park and Earnest Burgess propagated that Central Business District (CBD) impacts urban and downtown planning, urban renewal, urban expansions, housing projects, commercial activities, industrialization, community development and urban ecological system. Next, the Berlin School of Urban Ecology also extended the aforementioned

Introduction: Ecology is the scientific analysis, and study of the interactions among organisms and their environment. In animal ecology, ecologists believe that their central goal is understanding the relationship between predator and prey, and among a predator-prey relationship a significant component is the predator’s rate of feeding upon prey. In predator-prey studies, one of the basic components is known as functional response. Functional responses is the intake rate of a consumer as a function

In “Ecology of Youth Collective Socialization”, Nicotera, Williams, and Anthony argue that multiple social ecology influences of peers, school, as well as neighborhoods are extensively related to youth’s well-being, as well as misconducts. Within the article written, the intended audience consists of scholars, professionals, parents, as well as current and future researchers. The three authors submitted multiple hypotheses regarding the influences of peers, school, as well as neighborhoods on today’s

Their presence, and often the mere possibility of it, induces behavioral changes in prey that limit how much said organisms forage and reproduce. Ultimately, production of this so-called “landscape of fear” limits prey populations, along with direct predation (William et al., 2014). These types of indirect effects are also manifested by humans, and have strong behavioral implications for apex predators. Studies show that mountain lion prefer to perform reproductive

existing interrelationships amid concepts into ways that can effectively direct actions and interventions. The objective of this paper is to define and examine the social ecology model and its application to the nursing process and community health problems. Historical Development The historic development of the social ecology model originates back to the systems theory and Dr. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s social ecological

The societal, environmental, and behavioral factors that affected the health and the evolution of medicine are the transition from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to a farming lifestyle, and the side effects that it triggered. Originally, the delicate ecological balance existing and the human problems of environmental deterioration, water and air pollution, population density, and resource depletion wounded the ecosystem. Moreover, the way they adapt and grew their unique surroundings, and the design

Wildlife Introduction Purpose I would like to briefly summarize why wildlife is important and I’m examining this because it’s truly important that we as people recognize that wildlife plays a big role in how we live. Problem Nature is losing its wildlife! The loss can be attributed to two main causes. The first cause is human interaction. Humans are having too much interference in nature. According to the World Wide Federation (2017), the forests, swamps, plains, and lakes are being destroyed to