Talk:Behavioral ecology

Page rewritten 5 July 2005 by Craig Barnett. Only the first sentance remains from the first post.

Merger proposal

Behavioral ecology and ethoecology are really just the same thing but with different names. So, we should move everything from ethoecology into behavioral ecology (even though ethoecology is a more interesting name). It wouldn't make a huge difference since there isn't much in ethoecology anyway. --Skyler :^| 21:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Not a good idea! ethoecology is a meaningless Americanism. The term Behavioural ecology has been coined for a great many years now and is understood. It may be worth considering having a note in the Behavioural Ecology section to the effect that it may also be referred to as ethoecology. The study of ethology is a much finer field than the study of behaviour and thus this should be reflected in the umbrella title of the section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FatPumpkin (talk • contribs) 08:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't think you understand. Ethoecology, "the meaningless Americanism," would no longer be an article and any extra information that it holds not within the Behavioral ecology page would be transferred. That would probably only be a sentence or two. --Skyler :^| 01:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea then. As stated in my original post I would agree with the general title being "Behavioural Ecology" and maybe including a short paragraph documenting ethoecology. I was just making sure we were not proposing having a combined title of "Behavioural Ecology/Ethoecology"FatPumpkin (talk) 09:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I would merge them, in fact, I would put ethoecology as a subsection under behavioral ecology (BE) (and then I'd put HBE under BE, but that's another merger discussion). Overall, etheocology is not a very developed article, and so it would fit nicely into BE. Rhetth (talk) 21:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I'm not sure what to do with the ethoecology article then, though. -Skyler 19:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Please Explain

Phylogenetic constraints are generally factors that might stop certain lineages developing certain behavioral or morphological traits. Hence, it is no coincidence that generally birds are able to fly and mammals cannot. The evolutionary history of these lineages have made it profitable for birds to fly and for mammalian feet to remain planted on the ground.

Please explain what you mean by this, so I can rewrite it. What "factors" are you talking about?

72.8.108.76 17:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Optimization should be written

The current article on optimization is maths based and shows little mention of biological optimality. Some one should either add it to the existing article or create Optimization (biology) or Optimality modeling. Jack (talk) 16:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)