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"The authors consider individual organisms before considering habitats; they demonstrate how to apply such an approach to animal ecology in the field. The book is meant for wildlife professionals who are interested in exploring what kinds of insights this alternative approach can yield"--

This book provides expert evaluation of the use of video techniques in a wide range of behavioural and ecological research situations. Covering applied techniques both in the laboratory and the field, the latest results from leading expert researchers are given

This book continues the authoritative and established sequence of theoretical ecology books initiated by Robert M. May which helped pave the way for ecology to become a more robust theoretical science, encouraging the modern biologist to better understand the mathematics behind their theories.

Intro -- BEHAVIORAL AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- COLLECTING ARTHROPOD AND AMPHIBIAN SECRETIONS FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Arthropod Secretions and Venoms -- 1.2. Amphibian Skin Secretions -- 1.3. Sources of Defensive Chemicals Known from Amphibian Skin Secretions -- 1.3.1. Microsymbionts that Produce Defensive Chemicals -- 1.3.2. Dietary Sequestration of Toxins -- 1.3.3. Biosynthesis of defensive chemicals -- 1.4. Chemicals Used in Communication -- 1.4.1. Pheromones and allelochemicals -- 1.4.2. Behavioral studies in the field and laboratory -- 1.5. Aim of This Chapter -- 2. COLLECTION PREPARATION AND LOGISTICS -- 2.1. In-Country Collaborators and Local Support -- 2.2. Research/Collecting and Export/Import Permits -- 2.3. Tropical Field Work -- 2.4. Materials -- 3. COLLECTION METHODS -- 3.1. Record Keeping -- 3.2. Avoiding Contamination -- 3.3. Nonlethal Amphibian Skin Secretion Collection -- 3.3.1. Secretion induction via electronic stimulation -- 3.3.2. Secretion induction via mechanical stimulation -- 3.3.3. Other Techniques for Secretion Induction and Collection -- 3.3.4. Genetic Material -- 3.4. Frog Voucher Collection -- 3.4.1. Euthanization and Skinning -- 3.4.2. Stomach Contents -- 3.4.3. Genetic Material -- 3.5. Arthropod Chemicals -- 3.5.1. Whole Animal Extracts -- 3.5.2. Specialized Arthropod Secretion And Venom Collection -- 4. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS-OVERVIEW FOR BIOLOGISTS AS IS RELEVANT TO COLLECTION TECHNIQUES -- 4.1. Purification and Fractionation -- 4.2. Spectroscopic Methods -- 4.3. Contamination- An Example from the Literature -- 4.4. Artifacts -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 7. REFERENCES -- 8. APPENDIX: EXAMPLE PACKING LIST FOR TROPICALFIELD WORK -- Personal Supplies for Carry-on -- Camping -- Personal -- Medical -- Team Supplies (Camping, Food, Clothes, Etc).

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- What Are Partnerships? -- Strange Friends -- Cleaning Services -- Teamwork -- Farmers and Scavengers -- Underwater Partners -- Be My Guest! -- Masters of Disguise -- Unwelcome Guests -- Glossary -- Websites -- Read More -- Index -- Back Cover.

"This book covers selected topics on research methods in modern ecology, through the lens of 12 different chapters, focusing on animal ecology, landcover assessment and habitat change, human perspectives and management, and research techniques. Topics emphasize the development of enhanced computer software techniques and the syntheses of these into pre-existing research methods, chemical analyses, including studies of animal dietary and foraging patterns, landcover, habitat and plant ecological change and even human/animal relations, and genetic studies. Remote sensing and geographical information systems are considered as cutting-edge research methods, at small, medium and large-scale levels, including more accurate positioning systems, more sensitive tracking systems, the removal of obstacles to clearer observation and species identification, such as darkness and poor lighting, dense vegetation and coarse image resolution and more comparative studies across different local contexts and global ecosystems. The topics cover vulture ecology, the factors for the decline and management of Asian vultures, the use of tracking technologies including drones, in the study of urban vulture ecology, the use of thermal and infrared drones in the study of large mammalian carnivores, the role of remote sensing and GIS in the assessment of natural resource development, clustering around the central concept of change detection, the monitoring of agricultural development using socio-cultural parameters, the impacts of chemical pollution on raptors, the chemistry of vulture foraging, habitat dynamics for storks in Malaysia, Indian ecotourism in tiger habitats, and human-wildlife conflicts in Brazil. Other topics concern research on Bio-environmental Monitoring and Assessment using eDNA and Genome-based environmental monitoring, and the dynamics social perceptions of natural landscapes in Europe, and international examples of the Landscape Ecology of Urban Avian Scavengers. This book argues that these issues represent some cutting factors among the vast number of current ecological issues"--

1. Physiological Mechanisms and Behaviour -- 2. Motivation and Decision-making -- 3. From Genes to Behaviour -- 4. Experience and Learning -- 5. Finding a Place to Live -- 6. Finding Food -- 7. Anti-predator Behaviour -- 8. The Ecology of Reproduction -- 9. The Ecology and Organisation of Social Behaviour -- 10. Communication -- 11. Evolution and Behaviour.

Examines the efforts made by scientists in the fields of environment, environmental protection, and environmental science. Covering a range of topics - including the Earth sciences, atmosphere, oceans, ecology, animals, plants, and exploration - this title provides a panorama of accounts of particular discoveries and the people who made them.

This book deals with the role of education in improving animal welfare and reducing animal suffering inflicted by humans. It embraces situations in which humans have direct control over animals or interfere directly with them, but it considers also indirect animal suffering resulting from human activities. Education is regarded in the broad sense of creating awareness and facilitating change. First, consideration is given to a number of specific themes in which education can make an important contribution towards reducing animal suffering, and subsequently an examination is made of a number of interrelated contexts in which education can address the various themes. The considered educational themes are: · animal suffering and sentience that have both scientific and moral aspects · human discrimination against animals known as speciesism and the need for attitudinal change by humans · role and existing limitations of legislation in providing protection to animals · matter of enforcement of animal protection legislation · achievement of reform to improve animal protection by legislative and other means · training of professionals, carers, and users involved with animals to provide better protection · the scope for science to contribute to improved animal protection · animal protection as a regional and international issue