Ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds / / edited by Walter D. Koenig Janis L. Dickinson [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 598.156
• Soggetto topico: Birds - Behavior - Evolution; Birds - Ecology; Cooperative breeding in animals
• Persona (resp. second.): KoenigWalter D. <1950->; DickinsonJanis L. <1955->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-278) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Evolutionary origins / J. David Ligon, D. Brent Burt -- Delayed dispersal / Jan Ekman [and others] -- Fitness consequences of helping / Janis L. Dickinson, Ben J. Hatchwell -- Parental care, load-lightening and costs / Robert G. Heinsohn -- Mating systems and sexual conflict / Andrew Cockburn -- Sex-ratio manipulation / Jan Komdeur -- Physiological ecology / Morne A. Du Plessis -- Endocrinology / Steven J. Schoech [and others] -- Incest and incest avoidance / Walter D. Koenig, Joseph Haydock -- Reproductive skew / Robert D. Magrath [and others] -- Joint laying systems / Sandra L. Vehrencamp, James S. Quinn -- Conservation biology / Jeffrey R. Walters [and others] -- Mammals : comparisons and contrasts / Andrew F. Russell -- Summary / Stephen Pruett-Jones.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an important challenge in behavioural ecology for over 30 years. This book highlights the theoretical, empirical and technical advances that have taken place in the field of cooperative breeding research since the publication of the seminal work Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Behavior and Ecology (1990, HB ISBN 0521 372984, PB ISBN 0521 378907). Organized conceptually, special attention is given to ways in which cooperative breeders have proved fertile subjects for testing modern advances to classic evolutionary problems including those of sexual selection, sex-ratio manipulation, life-history evolution, partitioning of reproduction and incest avoidance. It will be of interest to both students and researchers interested in behaviour and ecology.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ecology & Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds
• ISBN: 1-107-14597-X; 1-280-54106-7; 9786610541065; 0-511-21519-3; 0-511-21698-X; 0-511-21161-9; 0-511-31564-3; 0-511-60681-8; 0-511-21338-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457195103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II