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Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds / / Tony D. Williams



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Autore: Williams Tony D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds / / Tony D. Williams Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
Disciplina: 598.13/8
Soggetto topico: Birds - Reproduction
Females
Birds - Physiology
Adaptation (Physiology)
Phenotype
Birds - Variation
Birds - Ecology
Soggetto non controllato: annual cycle
avian ecology
avian reproduction
avian reproductive cycle
breeding events
breeding season
breeding
chick rearing
chick-rearing
clutch number
clutch size
corticosterone
ecology
egg laying
egg production
egg quality
egg size
evolutionary biology
female birds
female reproduction
food availability
hypothalamicаituitaryЧonadal axis
incubation
life-history stages
life-history
maternal fitness
neuroendocrine system
nutrient debts
ovary
parental care
photoperiod
physiological mechanisms
post-breeding life
pre-breeding period
prolactin
reproductive costs
reproductive cycle
reproductive life-history
reproductive physiology
reproductive traits
resource allocation
self-maintenance
temperature
wintering
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Hormonal and Physiological Control of Egg Production -- Chapter 3. Timing of Breeding -- Chapter 4. Egg Size and Egg Quality -- Chapter 5. Clutch Size -- Chapter 6. Parental Care -- Chapter 7. Trade-Offs and Carry-Over Effects -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration of female avian reproductive physiology and ecology, and an emphasis on individual variation in life-history traits. Tony Williams investigates the physiological, metabolic, energetic, and hormonal mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the key female-specific reproductive traits and the trade-offs between these traits that determine variation in fitness. The core of the book deals with the avian reproductive cycle, from seasonal gonadal development, through egg laying and incubation, to chick rearing. Reproduction is considered in the context of the annual cycle and through an individual's entire life history. The book focuses on timing of breeding, clutch size, egg size and egg quality, and parental care. It also provides a primer on female reproductive physiology and considers trade-offs and carryover effects between reproduction and other life-history stages. In each chapter, Williams describes individual variation in the trait of interest and the evolutionary context for trait variation. He argues that there is only a rudimentary, and in some cases nonexistent, understanding of the physiological mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the major reproductive life-history traits, and that research efforts should refocus on these key unresolved problems by incorporating detailed physiological studies into existing long-term population studies, generating a new synthesis of physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
Titolo autorizzato: Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49454-9
9786613589774
1-4008-4279-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827779303321
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