Bird Coloration. Function and Evolution. Volume 2

In this companion volume to Bird Coloration: Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements, Geoffrey E. Hill and Kevin J. McGraw have assembled some of the world's leading experts in the function and evolution of bird coloration to contribute to a long-overdue synthesis of a burgeoning field of inquiry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, Geoffrey E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Birds > Color.
Oiseaux > Couleur.
Birds > Color
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Function
  • 1. Natural Selection and Coloration: Protection, Concealment, Advertisement, or Deception?
  • 2. Intraspecific Variation in Coloration
  • 3. Color Displays as Intrasexual Signals of Aggression and Dominance
  • 4. Female Mate Choice for Ornamental Coloration
  • 5. Function and Evolution of Color in Young Birds
  • 6. Benefits to Females of Assessing Color Displays
  • 7. Female Coloration: Review of Functional and Nonfunctional Hypotheses
  • II. Evolution
  • 8. Colorful Phenotypes of Colorless Genotypes: Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis of Color Displays
  • 9. Ecological Explanations for Interspecific Variability in Coloration
  • 10. Adding Color to the Past: Ancestral-State Reconstruction of Coloration
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Species Index
  • Subject Index

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