Bøker av Douglass H. Morse

This readable text represents a much needed synthesis of ecological insight into animal behavior. Exploring the theme of resource acquisitions, Morse combines the comparative approach to biology with models based on evolutionary theory. This book will meet the teaching and reference needs of an extremely broad audience of professional biologists.

The crab spider is an ideal species on which to test basic questions of lifetime fitness, but ecologists had previously lacked experimental data needed to comprehensively test individuals making foraging decisions. This book recounts Morse's influential experimental discoveries, moving from individuals to communities to ecosystems.