INDEX 



415 



Autolyhis, asexual reproduction, 16 

 Autoprotection (Drzewina and Bohn), 



191, 201, 207, 212, 218, 221, 222, 



223, 235, 274, 285 

 Autotomy of starfish arms affected by 



crowding, 182, 189, 190 

 Autotoxins, bacterial, 103 



specificity, 106 

 "Auximones," 159 



Baboons, 349 



Bacillus spp., mass protection against 

 gentian violet, 253 



causes of, 255 



heterotypic protection, 256 

 Bacteria, 337, 357 



cessation of growth, 103 



effect on allelocatalysis, 165, 178 



communal activity, 167, 247, 259, 261 



mass protection for, 217, 252, 260, 285 



in Procerodes experiments, 233 



culture, life-cycle of, 247 



lag, theories for, 248 



colony compared with an individual, 

 261 



in mammalian semen, 283 



effect on male production in Cladocera, 

 308 

 Baker, 79 

 Baker, L. E., 150 

 Balbiani, G., 120 

 Baltzer, F., 291, 293, 294, 310 

 Banks, N., 75 

 Banta, A. M., 67, 68, 89, 235, 303, 304, 



30s, 306, 307, 308 

 Barber, M. A., 253 

 Barbour, T., 26 

 Barkow, H. C. L., 70 

 Barnacle, 21, 358 



polyandry in Alcippe, 26 



food habits of Alcippe, 31 



growing on whales, 32 



crowding on growth form, 311 



Barthelemy, H., 266 



Baskervill, M., 266 



Bass, black, community relations, 83 



food, 84 

 Bates, A. F. C, 79 

 Bats, 12 



breeding behavior, 27 



hibernation, 70 



roosts, 79 



tactile integration, 88 



Beavers, 352 

 Beebe, W., 93, 342 

 Bees, 12, 346, 348, 352 



solitary, 13, 18 



as heteromorphic societies, 24 



honey, drone behavior, 27 



hibernation, 28, 70 



Mellisodes, 28, 75 



"sleep" aggregations, 75 

 Beetles, drifts of, 22, 341 



Necrophorus, 19, 28 



passalid, 24, 27, 92 



coccinellid, hibernation, 28 



gyrinid, aggregations, 28, 6o 



dermestid, food habits, 31 



staphalinid, preying on ant larva, 31 



Dermcstes, food exhaustion, 102 



population equilibrium, 138, 179 



reproductive rate stimulated by crowd- 

 ing, 179, 236, 244 



chr>-somelid larvae, group protection in 

 nature, 245 



abundance, 359 

 Belostoma, aggregation formation, 52 

 Bilski, F., 112, 114, lis, 118, 119, 132, 



148, 149 

 Bilski's formula for effect of crowding on 



growth, 117 

 Biocoenosis, 5, 9, 23, 35, 355 

 Bioelectrical, see Biophysical 

 Biophysical integration, 96, 299 



effects of containers, 125, 277 



protection, 219, 276, 285 



conditioning of environment, 354 



"Bios," 119, 157, 159 

 Biota, 36 



of lake, 83 

 Biotic balance, 83, 85, 179 



Birds, 12 



young, as homomorphic societies, 24 



breeding behavior, 27, 343 



common roosts, crows and robins, e.g., 

 28, 79- 339 



mixed groups, 30, 342 



migration societies, 31 



partially closed communities, 2,Z 



songs, significance, 92 



polyspermy, 266 



flocking behavior, 339, 340, 342, 343, 

 344, 348, 349 

 Bison, American, breeding behavior, 27 

 Blair, K. A., 92 

 Blanchard, F. N., 67 

 BUss, C. I., 239, 240 



