Behavioural Ecology Top Journals

If an organism features a trait that gives a selective advantage in its environment, then survival favors it. Adaptive significance refers to the expression of a trait that affects fitness, measured by a person's reproductive success. Adaptive traits are people who produce more copies of the individual's genes in future generations. Maladaptive traits are people who leave fewer. for instance , if a bird which will call more loudly attracts more mates, then a loud call is an adaptive trait for that species because a louder bird mates more frequently than less loud birds—thus sending more loud-calling genes into future generations. Bringing together significant work on all aspects of the topic Behavioral Ecology is broad-based and covers both empirical and theoretical approaches.