behavioural ecology
behavioural ecology Study of the complex relationship between environment and animal behaviour. This involves drawing on natural history to study the adaptive features of an organism within its habitat. Human behaviour is similarly studied. See also adaptation; ecology; ethology
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Adaptive Zone , adaptive zone The abstract area that a taxon occupies by virtue of its adaptations, when it is considered together with its associated environmental… Mammuthus , Mammuthus (mammoth) Line of Pleistocene elephants adapted to steppe and tundra habitats. The tusks were elongated and strongly curved, and the skull… Adaptive Pathway , adaptive pathway A series of small adaptive steps, rather than a single large one, which leads from one adaptive zone across an environmental and ada… Adapt , a·dapt / əˈdapt/ • v. [tr.] make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify: hospitals have to be adapted for modern medical practice. ∎ [… Habitat , A habitat is the environment in which an organism, species, or community lives. Habitats can be classified in a number of ways in order to compare th… general adaptation , general adaptation An adaptation that fits an organism for life in some broad environmental zone, as opposed to ‘special adaptations’ which are speci…
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