Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds /
The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species. Polygyny is a mating system in which individual males form long-term mating relationships with more than one female at a t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parental Care
- 3. Territoriality
- 4. Female Reproductive Success
- 5. Female Choice of Breeding Situation
- 6. Polygyny
- 7. Sexual Selection in Progress
- 8. Adaptations for Sexual Selection
- 9. Polygyny, Sexual Selection, and Female Red-winged Blackbirds
- 10. Conclusions
- Common and Scientific Names
- References
- Author Index
- Taxonomic Index
- Subject Index