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Cooperative breeding in vertebrates : studies of ecology, evolution, and behavior /
Cooperative breeders are species in which individuals beyond a pair assist in the production of young in a single brood or litter. Although relatively rare, cooperative breeding is widespread taxonomically and continues to pose challenges to our understanding of the evolution of cooperation and altr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Siberian jays: delayed dispersal in the absence of cooperative breeding / Jan Ekman and Michael Griesser
- Western bluebirds: lessons from a marginal cooperative breeder / Janis L. Dickinson ; Caglar Akcay ; Elise D. Ferree ; Caitlin A. Stern
- Long-tailed tits: ecological causes and fitness consequences of redirected helping / Ben J. Hatchwell
- Red-cockaded woodpeckers: alternative pathways to breeding success / Jeffrey R. Walters and Victoria Garcia
- Florida scrub-jays: oversized territories and group defense in a fire-maintained habitat / John W. Fitzpatrick and Reed Bowman
- Carrion crows: family living and helping in a flexible social system / Vittorio Baglione and Daniela Canestrari
- Southern pied babblers: the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a group-living society / Amanda R. Ridley
- Superb fairy-wrens: making the worst of a good job / Andrew Cockburn ; Lyanne Brouwer ; Nicolas Margraf ; Helen L. Osmond ; Martijn van de Pol
- Chestnut-crowned babblers: dealing with climatic adversity and uncertainty in the Australian arid zone / Andrew F. Russell
- Bell miners: kin-selected helping decisions / Jonathan Wright and Paul G. McDonald
- Superb starlings: cooperation and confluct in an unpredictable environment / Dustin R. Rubenstein
- Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox / Jan Komedeur ; Terry Burke ; Hannah Dugdale ; David S. Richardson
- Acorn woodpeckers: helping at the nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop / Walter D. Koenig ; Eric L. Walters ; Joseph Haydock
- Taiwan yuhinas: unrelated joint-nesters cooperate in unfavorable environments / Sheng-Feng Shen ; Hsiao-Wei Yuan ; Mark Liu
- Guira cuckoos: cooperation, infanticide, and female reproductive investment in a joint-nesting species / Regina H. Macedo
- Cichlid fishes: a model for the integrative study of social behavior / Michael Taborsky
- Meerkats: cooperative breeding in the Kalahari / Tim Clutton-Brock and Marta Manser
- Banded mongooses: demography, life history, and social behavior / Michael A. Cant ; Hazel J. Nichols ; Faye J. Thompson ; Emma Vitakainen
- Damaraland and naked mole-rats: convergence of social evolution / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett
- Synthesis: cooperative breeding in the twenty-first century / Walter D. Koenig ; Janis L. Dickinson ; Stephen T. Emlen.