BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology publishes reviews, original contributions and commentaries dealing with quantitative empirical and theoretical studies in the analysis of animal behavior at the level of the individual, group, population, community, and species. The section "Methods" considers submissions concerning statistical procedures and their problems, as well as with problems related to measurement techniques.Special emphasis is placed on ultimate functions and evolution of ecological adaptations of behavior, in addition to mechanistic studies of proximate cause.Among aspects of particular interest are intraspecific behavioral interactions, with special focus on social behavior including altruism, cooperation and parental care; pre- and postzygotic sexual selection;kin recognition and kin selection, group structure, social networks; interspecific behavioral interactions including competition, resource partitioning, speciation, foraging, mutualism, predator-prey interactions and parasitism; signalling, behavioral ecophysiology, information processing and neuroecology; behavioral genetics; sociogenomics, behavioral plasticity and behavioral syndromes; dispersal and orientation in space and time; and relevant evolutionary and functional theory.The Chief Editors are Theo C. M. Bakker, Bonn, Germany (vertebrates) and James F. A. Traniello, Boston, U.S.A. (invertebrates).

行为生态学和社会生物学发表评论，原始的贡献和评论处理定量的经验和理论研究的分析动物行为在个人，群体，人口，社区和物种的水平。“方法”一节审议关于统计程序及其问题以及与测量技术有关的问题的意见书。除了近因的机械学研究外，还特别强调行为的终极功能和生态适应的进化。特别感兴趣的方面包括种内行为互动，特别关注利他主义、合作和父母关怀等社会行为;受精卵前和受精卵后的性别选择;亲缘关系识别和亲缘关系选择;群体结构;社会网络;种间行为交互包括竞争、资源分配、物种形成、觅食、互惠、捕食者-被捕食者交互和寄生;信号、行为生态生理学、信息处理和神经生态学;行为遗传学;社会基因组学、行为可塑性和行为综合征;空间和时间上的分散和定向;以及相关的进化和功能理论。主编分别为德国波恩的Theo c.m. Bakker(脊椎动物)和美国波士顿的James f.a. Traniello(无脊椎动物)。