CONFERENCE--Variation in Lizard Social Behavior: Individuals, Populations and Species to be held June 18-24, 199, Penn State University, State College, PA

动物行为计划非技术摘要提案编号：9816994 PI：Stanley F. FoxTitle：“蜥蜴社会行为的变异：个体、种群和物种”本次研讨会将介绍蜥蜴社会行为变异的最新研究成果，并将与会者和渴望交流这一主题的观众聚集在一起。 它将与1999年在美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学宾夕法尼亚州立大学校园举行的爬虫学家联盟年会同时举行。 虽然在1965年、1980年和1993年举行了几次专题讨论会，介绍蜥蜴生态学的各个方面，并强调它们作为生态学研究模式生物的重要性，而且所有这些专题讨论会都包括讨论社会行为方面的论文，但没有一次专题讨论会对目前蜥蜴社会行为的理解进行了彻底的回顾。 这次研讨会将集中讨论社会行为，会议记录将作为一卷贡献的章节出版。 专题讨论会和卷应该证明重要的不仅是爬虫学领域，而且对动物行为领域的一般。

Animal Behavior ProgramNontechnical AbstractProposal #: 9816994PI: Stanley F. FoxTitle: "A symposium -- Variation in lizard social behavior: Individuals, populations and species" This symposium will present the results of recent research on the variation in social behavior in lizards and bring together both participants and an audience eager to exchange ideas about this topic. It will be held in conjunction with the 1999 annual meeting of the Herpetologists' League at the Penn State campus in State College, Pennsylvania, and USA. Although several symposia presenting aspects of lizard ecology and stressing their importance as model organisms for the study of ecology have been held (in 1965, 1980, and 1993), and all included papers that discussed aspects of social behavior, none presented a thorough review of the current understanding of social behavior in lizards. This symposium will focus on social behavior and the proceedings will be published as a volume of contributed chapters. The symposium and volume should prove important not just to the field of herpetology, but also to the field of animal behavior in general.