Helping Communal Breeding in Birds : Ecology and Evolution / J. L. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, J. L., author.

Series:

Monographs in behavior and ecology.

Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 504

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rainbows.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Why Study Helping Behavior?

2. The Discovery of Helping Behavior and a Classification of Avian Communal Breeding Systems

3. Climate, Geography, and Taxonomy

4. Elements of Inclusive Fitness Theory for Field Studies

5. Delayed Breeding Sets the Stage for Helping

6. Reduced Dispersal Sets the Stage for Helping

7. Territorial Inheritance as Parental Facilitation

8. Mutualism, Cost-sharing, and Group Size

9. Mutualistic Mating Systems Polyandry and Uncertain Paternity

10. Mutualistic Mating Systems Joint Nesting and Uncertain Maternity

11. Does Helping Really Benefit the Helped?

12. The Genetic Structure of Social Units215

13. Indirect Selection for Helping

14. Direct Fitness, Mutualism, and Reciprocity

15. Parent-Offspring Relationships

16. Infanticide. Dominance, and Destructive Behavior

17. Diet and Group Territoriality

18. Synthesis

Appendix

Annotated Glossary

Author Index

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 355-366.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691637884

0691637881

9780691609645

0691609640

9780691084480

0691084483

9781400858569

1400858569

OCLC:

899264239