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Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal Life

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Editors:
  1. Guido Chelazzi

    1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  2. Marco Vannini

    1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 151)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Spatial Behaviour

    1. Zonal Recovering in Equatorial Sandhoppers: Interaction Between Magnetic and Solar Orientation

      • Leo Pardi, Ali Said Faqi, Alberto Ugolini, Felicita Scapini, Antonio Ercolini
      Pages 79-92

    2. Aspects of Direction Finding Inheritance in Natural Populations of Littoral Sandhoppers (Talitrus saltator)

      • Felicita Scapini, Alberto Ugolini, Leo Pardi
      Pages 93-103

    3. Learning in Zonal Orientation of Sandhoppers

      • Alberto Ugolini, Felicita Scapini, Guy Beugnon, Leo Pardi
      Pages 105-118

    4. Foraging Excursion and Homing in the Tropical Crab Eriphia smithi

      • Marco Vannini, Francesca Gherardi
      Pages 119-133

    5. When Limiting Factors aren’t: Lessons from Land Crabs

      • Thomas G. Wolcott, Donna L. Wolcott
      Pages 135-151

    6. Barnacle Larval Settlement: the Perception of Cues at Different Spatial Scales

      • Edwin Bourget
      Pages 153-172

    7. Analysis of Movement Patterns and Orientation Mechanisms in Intertidal Chitons and Gastropods

      • Guido Chelazzi, Stefano Focardi, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
      Pages 173-184

    8. Homing Mechanisms of Intertidal Chitons: Field Evidence and the Hypothesis of Trail-Polymorphism

      • Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Stefano Focardi, Guido Chelazzi
      Pages 185-195

    9. Interindividual Variation in Foraging Behaviour within a Temperate and a Tropical Species of Carnivorous Gastropods

      • Lani West
      Pages 197-212

    10. Thermal Stress in a High Shore Intertidal Environment: Morphological and Behavioural Adaptations of the Gastropod Littorina africana

      • Christopher D. McQuaid, P. A. Scherman
      Pages 213-224
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About this book

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Behavioural Adaptation to Intertidal Life" held in Castiglioncello, Italy (May, 1987) was attended by 50 participants, most of whom presented requested lectures. It was perhaps the first time that specialists of various animal groups, from cnidarians to birds, were able to meet and discuss the importance of behavioural adaptation to this peculiar, sometimes very harsh environment. But the taxonomic barrier is not the only one which the meeting attemped to over­ come. Lately, the research on intertidal biology has spread from pure taxonomy and static analysis of community structure to such dynamic aspects as intra- and interspecific relationships, and physiological mechanisms aimed at avoiding stress and exploitation of limited-resources. This increasing interest stems not only from an inclination for this particular ecological system and some of its typical inhabitants, but also from the realization that rocky and sandy shore communities are suitable models for testing and improving some global theories of evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology and sociobiology. The number of eco-physiological and eco-ethological problems emerging from the study of intertidal animals is fascinatingly large and a complete understanding of this environment cannot be reached using a strictly "reductionistic" or a pure "holistic" approach.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Guido Chelazzi, Marco Vannini

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal Life

  • Editors: Guido Chelazzi, Marco Vannini

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3737-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42930-9Published: 01 February 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3739-1Published: 03 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3737-7Published: 20 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 524

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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