Please cite this article in press as: Zuk, M., e dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.02.032 It may seem as if behaviour is so plastic that it would not foster the establishment of a genetically determined trait, but under some circumstances, it can greatly influence whether a novel trait, such as a new morphology, spreads in a population. If the behaviours associated with the trait’s function alr...

Adaptive limiter control has been proposed as a method for stabilizing fluctuations in unstable population dynamics. This method invokes a dynamic thresholding and restocks the population if it falls below a certain proportion of its previous size. The reference state for the adaptive threshold can be the previous population size after (ALC) or before (ALCb) intervention. The former has been te...

Unravelling relationships between dispersal and population structure requires considering the impacts of assumption violations of indirect gene flow models in a given system. We combined temporal, individual and coalescent-based analyses of microsatellite DNA variation to explore the general hypothesis that unequal effective population size ( N e ), asymmetric gene flow ( m ) and nonrandom (sex...

The main subject dealt with in this symposium is the interaction between hunters, lynx populations and roe deer populations. One chapter is about the change in behavior of the roe deer with the appearance of lynx. Another part examines how to evaluate the effects of lynx on the roe deer population density. It ends with a case study in Germany which shows that a constructive lynx management coul...

Specialist and generalist behaviors in populations of arti cial neural networks are studied. A genetic algorithm is used to simulate evolution processes, and thereby to develop neural network control systems that exhibit specialist or generalist behaviors according to the tness formula. With evolvable tness formulae the evaluation measure is let free to evolve, and we obtain a co-evolution of t...