All's well that begins Wells: celebrating 60 years of Animal Behaviour and 36 years of research on anuran social behaviour
All's well that begins Wells: celebrating 60 years of Animal Behaviour and 36 years of research on anuran social behaviour
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.031
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2013-01-01
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2.5
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Summers, Kyle
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Bee, Mark A.;Schwartz, Joshua J.;Summers, Kyle
对青蛙和蟾蜍作为行为生态学中重要系统的科学研究可以追溯到36年前发表在这本杂志上的一篇有影响力的评论(Wells 1977a，《无尾两栖动物的社会行为》，Animal Behaviors，25,666-693)。在短短28页的时间里，威尔斯总结了与无尾两栖动物繁殖相关的重要行为的知识状况，并介绍了一个进化框架(第666页)，“用于理解社会行为和生态之间的关系”，这一框架在这一群体的早期治疗中基本上是缺乏的。威尔斯的评论不仅是《动物行为》杂志上发表的被引用次数最多的论文之一，它还负责制定广泛的研究议程，并塑造了我们目前对整个脊椎动物的社会行为的大部分思考。因此，我们在这篇庆祝12篇被社区评选为动物行为学60年历史上最有影响力的论文的首篇文章中，完全有理由赞扬威尔斯的评论及其对动物行为研究的贡献。在我们的文章中，我们把Wells的评论放在行为生态学初露端倪的历史背景下，重点介绍了该领域在回答评论中概述的一些主要研究问题方面的进展，并为未来两栖动物社会行为的研究提供了自己的展望。(C)2012年动物行为研究协会。爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
The scientific study of frogs and toads as important systems in behavioural ecology traces its roots to an influential review published in this journal 36 years ago (Wells 1977a, 'The social behaviour of anuran amphibians', Animal Behaviour, 25, 666-693). In just 28 pages, Wells summarized the state of knowledge on important behaviours associated with anuran breeding and introduced an evolutionary framework 'for understanding the relationship between social behaviour and ecology' (page 666) that was largely lacking in earlier treatments of this group. Not only is Wells's review one of the most cited papers ever published in Animal Behaviour, it is also responsible for setting broad research agendas and shaping much of our current thinking on social behaviour in an entire order of vertebrates. As such, it is entirely appropriate that we honour Wells's review and its contributions to the study of animal behaviour in this inaugural essay celebrating 12 papers selected by the community as the most influential papers published in the 60-year history of Animal Behaviour. In our essay, we place Wells's review in historical context at the dawn of behavioural ecology, highlight the field's progress in answering some major research questions outlined in the review, and provide our own prospectus for future research on the social behaviour of anuran amphibians. (C) 2012 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.