Helping Communal Breeding in Birds

Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
Title Helping Communal Breeding in Birds PDF eBook
Author J. L. Brown
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 374
Release 2014-07-14
Genre Science
ISBN 1400858569

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An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds

Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds
Title Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds PDF eBook
Author Jerram L. Brown
Publisher
Pages 354
Release 1987
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780691084473

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An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Title Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds PDF eBook
Author Walter D. Koenig
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 308
Release 2004-04-22
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780521530996

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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.

Cooperative Breeding in Birds

Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Title Cooperative Breeding in Birds PDF eBook
Author Peter B. Stacey
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 644
Release 1990-04-19
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780521378901

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Cooperative breeding is an unusual kind of social behaviour, found in a few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the parents help raise young. Understanding the apparently altruistic behaviour of helpers has provided numerous challenges to evolutionary biologists. This book includes detailed first-hand summaries of many of the major empirical studies of cooperatively breeding birds. It provides comparative information on the demography, social behaviour and behavioural ecology of these unusual species and explores the diversity of ideas and the controversies which have developed in this field. The studies are all long-term and consequently the book summarises some of the most extensive studies of the behaviour of marked individuals ever undertaken. Graduate students and research workers in ornithology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology will find much of value in this book.

Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates

Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
Title Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates PDF eBook
Author Walter D. Koenig
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 403
Release 2016-01-07
Genre Medical
ISBN 1107043433

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Brings together long-term studies of cooperation in vertebrates that challenge our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.

The Florida Scrub Jay

The Florida Scrub Jay
Title The Florida Scrub Jay PDF eBook
Author Glen Everett Woolfenden
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 428
Release 1984
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780691083674

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Florida Scrub Jays are an excellent example of a cooperative-breeding species, in which adult birds often help raise offspring not their own. For more than a decade Glen E. Woolfenden and John W. Fitzpatrick studied a marked population of these birds in an attempt to establish a demographic base for understanding the phenomenon of "helping at the nest." By studying both population biology and behavior, the authors found that habitat restraints, rather than kin selection, are the main source of the behavior of Florida Scrub Jays: the goal of increasing the number of close relatives other than descendants in future generations is of relatively minor importance in their cooperative-breeding behavior. The Florida Scrub Jay lives only in the Florida oak scrub. All acceptable habitat is constantly filled with breeders. Each year about half of the pairs are assisted by one to several nonbreeding helpers. This book provides extensive data on fecundity, survivorship, relatedness, and dispersal to establish the demographic milieu and to address questions arising out of observed helping behavior--whom, how, when, and why the helpers help.

Cooperative Breeding in Mammals

Cooperative Breeding in Mammals
Title Cooperative Breeding in Mammals PDF eBook
Author Nancy G. Solomon
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 400
Release 1997-03-13
Genre Science
ISBN 0521454913

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COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ANIMAL SOCIETIES.