Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Third Edition

For effective and efficient communication, people should have, or at least understand, the same precise terminology. Such terminology is crucial for the advancement of basic, theoretical, and applied science. Too often there is ambiguity between scientific and common definitions and even discrepancies in the scientific literature. This reference provides a common ground and platform for precise scientific communication in animal behaviour, ecology, evolution and related branches of biology, and contains more than 800 new terms and definitions, 48 new figures and thousands of additions and improvements. Using a dictionary format to present definitions in a standard, accessible manner, the book's main body emphasizes conceptual terms, rather than anatomical parts or taxonomical terms, and focuses on nouns, rather than verbs or adjectives. Term hierarchies are handled with bulleted entries and terms with multiple definintions are included as superscripted entries. All sources are cited and most are paraphrased to conform to uniform style and length. For more information on this dictionary, please click here.

Third Edition. 800 pages. 48 colour illustrations. Available as a Hardback and as an eBook. The eBook may be purchased here (choose United States from the drop-down list of countries at the top of the CRC Press webpage). For Librarians: Available on CRCnetBASE.

ISBN: Paperback: 9781138113954, Hardback: 978-1-4398-3651-4; eBook: 978-1-4398-3652-1

Price: Paperback: £55.19, Hardback: £144.00, eBook: £55.19