… offers biologists a real synthesis of ecology, physiology, and behaviour, based on in-depth …
express ecology, and make this book not only an important and truly integrated study in …

… to bring the different categories of phenotypic plasticity together, and emphasize … phenotypic
variation will increase the scope for phenotypic experimentation, comparison and integration…

… phenotypic plasticity, correlated trait evolution and phylogenetic conservatism as specific
mechanisms behind ecological … This definition serves to integrate evolutionary and ecological …

… The history of the concept has shaped the modern study of integration such that the study
of ecological, genetic, and developmental influences on complex traits are woven together. …

… response to unpredictable changes in social or ecological context. We propose … flexibility
that integrates ecological endocrinology with theoretical and empirical studies of phenotypic …

… Instead, our goal is to review how recent advances in the understanding of phenotypic
plasticity can aid studies in behavioural ecology of insects by informing researchers about …

… proximal causes of phenotypic integration, ultimate causes of genetic integration and even
… of phenotypic integration and one reason why integration is of interest to ecologists as well …

… integrate ecology into their thinking that questions regarding performance limits can be
satisfactorily answered, because it is the ecological … The concept of phenotypic flexibility is …

… and phenotypic flexibility for the performance and ecological … that organisms are integrated
complex phenotypes. I further … our ability to understand the ecological dynamics of natural …

… , and I propose that it plays roles in the ecology and evolution of organisms that are just as
… the roles of phenotypic plasticity and flexibility in organisms. From this integration, I derive a …