Environmental conditions change considerably in the course of 24 h
with respect to abiotic factors and intra- and interspecific
interactions. These changes result in limited time windows of
opportunity for animal activities and, hence, the question of when
to do what is subject to fitness maximisation. This volume gives a
current overview of theoretical considerations and empirical
findings of activity patterns in small mammals, a group in which
the energetic and ecological constraints are particularly severe
and the diversity of activity patterns is particularly high.
Following a comparative ecological approach, for the first time
activity timing is consequently treated in terms of behavioural and
evolutionary ecology, providing the conceptual framework for
chronoecology as a new subdiscipline within behavioural ecology. An
extensive Appendix gives an introduction to methods of activity
modelling and to tools for statistical pattern analysis.
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