Animal Architecture Paperback by Mike Hansell
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- Book Title
- Animal Architecture Paperback Mike Hansell
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- EX-LIBRARY
- ISBN
- 9780198507529
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198507526
ISBN-13
9780198507529
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43750739
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Animal Architecture
Subject
Animals / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Science
Series
Oxford Animal Biology Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-297193
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This fascinating assemblage of the world's animal architects will fill a niche in all collections."--Booklistwill fill a niche in all collections."--Booklist "It's obvious from the writing that the author...has a strong passion for the minutiae of animal-made structures. With a small midsection of color photos, the volume is a worthy read for anyone with even a slightly academic interest in the projects animals undertake."--Sierra Club,The GreenLife, "This fascinating assemblage of the world's animal architects will fill a niche in all collections."--Booklist will fill a niche in all collections."--Booklist"It's obvious from the writing that the author...has a strong passion for the minutiae of animal-made structures. With a small midsection of color photos, the volume is a worthy read for anyone with even a slightly academic interest in the projects animals undertake."--Sierra Club, The Green Life, Hansells long-held enthusiasm for the subject comes across in an easily read scholarly style. Trends in Ecology and Evolution December 2005., "This fascinating assemblage of the world's animal architects will fill a niche in all collections."--Booklist will fill a niche in all collections."--Booklist "It's obvious from the writing that the author...has a strong passion for the minutiae of animal-made structures. With a small midsection of color photos, the volume is a worthy read for anyone with even a slightly academic interest in the projects animals undertake."--Sierra Club, The Green Life, 1. Functions 2. Building materials: nature, origins, and processing 3. Behaviour and anatomy 4. Work organization and building complexity 5. Mechanics, growth, and design 6. Building costs, optimal solutions, and trade-offs 7. Animal architects as ecosystem engineers 8. Evolution, "This fascinating assemblage of the world's animal architects will fill a niche in all collections."-- Booklist will fill a niche in all collections."-- Booklist "It's obvious from the writing that the author...has a strong passion for the minutiae of animal-made structures. With a small midsection of color photos, the volume is a worthy read for anyone with even a slightly academic interest in the projects animals undertake."--Sierra Club, The Green Life
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
591.5
Table Of Content
1. Functions2. Building materials: nature, origins, and processing3. Behaviour and anatomy4. Work organization and building complexity5. Mechanics, growth, and design6. Building costs, optimal solutions, and trade-offs7. Animal architects as ecosystem engineers8. Evolution
Synopsis
Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of animal building. The book recognizes three broad categories of built structure: homes, traps, and courtship displays. Even though some of these structures are complex and very large, the behaviour required to build them isgenerally simple and the anatomy for building unspecialized. Standardization of building materials helps to keep building repertoires simple, while self-organizing effects help create complexity. In a case-studyapproach to function, insects demonstrate how homes can remain operational while they grow, spiderwebs illustrate mechanical design, and the displays of bowerbirds raise the possibility of persuasion through design rather than just decoration. Studies of the costs to builders provide evidence of optimal designs and of trade-offs with other life history traits. As ecosystem engineers, the influence of builders is extensive and their effect is generally to enhance biodiversity through nicheconstruction. Animal builders can therefore represent model species for the study of the emerging subject of environmental inheritance. Building, and in particular building with silk, has been demonstratedto have important evolutionary consequences. This book is intended for students and researchers in comparative animal biology, but will also be of relevance and use to the increasing numbers of architects and civil engineers interested in developing ideas from the animal kingdom., A monograph on the biology of animal building, embracing all animal groups from simple invertebrates to primate toolmakers. It looks at the behavioural and anatomical equipment animals have in order to build, and the nature of the materials available to them. It examines how animal architects are able, singly or collectively, to produce complex structures often much larger than themselves. It also looks at the costs of building, the properties of completedstructures, the ecological impact of them, and their effects on the evolution of animal builders., Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of animal building. The book recognizes three broad categories of built structure: homes, traps, and courtship displays. Even though some of these structures are complex and very large, the behaviour required to build them is generally simple and the anatomy for building unspecialized. Standardization of building materials helps to keep building repertoires simple, while self-organizing effects help create complexity. In a case-study approach to function, insects demonstrate how homes can remain operational while they grow, spiderwebs illustrate mechanical design, and the displays of bowerbirds raise the possibility of persuasion through design rather than just decoration. Studies of the costs to builders provide evidence of optimal designs and of trade-offs with other life history traits. As ecosystem engineers, the influence of builders is extensive and their effect is generally to enhance biodiversity through niche construction. Animal builders can therefore represent model species for the study of the emerging subject of environmental inheritance. Building, and in particular building with silk, has been demonstrated to have important evolutionary consequences. This book is intended for students and researchers in comparative animal biology, but will also be of relevance and use to the increasing numbers of architects and civil engineers interested in developing ideas from the animal kingdom., This monograph on the biology of animal building embraces all groups, from simple invertebrates to primate toolmakers. It looks at the behavioral and anatomical equipment animals have in order to build, as well as the materials available to them. It examines how architects are able, singly or collectively, to produce complex structures often much larger than themselves. It also looks at the costs of building, the properties of completed structures, the ecological impact of them, and their effects on the evolution of animal builders.
LC Classification Number
QL756
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