Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates (eBook, PDF)

Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Redaktion: Koenig, Walter D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 altruistic behavior. Bringing together long-term studies of cooperatively breeding birds, mammals, and fish, this volume provides a synthesis of current studies in the field. The chapters are organised by individual studies of particular species or (in the case of mole-rats) two closely related cooperatively breeding species. Each focuses not only on describing behavior and ecology but also on testing evolutionary hypotheses for the form and function of the diverse and extraordinary cooperative breeding lifestyles that have been discovered. This unique and comprehensive text will be of interest to graduate students and researchers of behavioral ecology and the evolution of cooperation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316490624
• Artikelnr.: 44758183

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Introduction Janis L. Dickinson and Walter D. Koenig;
1. Siberian jays: delayed dispersal in the absence of cooperative breeding
Jan Ekman and Michael Griesser; 2. Western bluebirds: lessons from a
marginal cooperative breeder Janis L. Dickinson, Çälar Akçay, Elise D.
Ferree and Caitlin A. Stern; 3. Long-tailed tits: ecological causes and
fitness consequences of redirected helping Ben J. Hatchwell; 4.
Red-cockaded woodpeckers: alternative pathways to breeding success Jeffrey
R. Walters and Victoria Garcia; 5. Florida scrub-jays: advantages of large
territories and group-defense in a fire-maintained habitat John W.
Fitzpatrick and Reed Bowman; 6. Carrion crows: family living and helping in
a flexible social system Vittorio Baglione and Daniela Canestrari; 7.
Southern pied babblers: the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a
group-living society Amanda R. Ridley; 8. Superb fairy-wrens: making the
worst of a good job Andrew Cockburn, Lyanne Brouwer, Nicolas Margraf, Helen
L. Osmond and Martijn van de Pol; 9. Chestnut-crowned babblers: dealing
with climatic adversity and uncertainty in the Australian arid zone Andrew
F. Russell; 10. Bell miners: kin-selected helping decisions Jonathan Wright
and Paul G. McDonald; 11. Superb starlings: cooperation and conflict in an
unpredictable environment Dustin R. Rubenstein; 12. Seychelles warblers:
complexities of the helping paradox Jan Komdeur, Terry Burke, Hannah
Dugdale and David S. Richardson; 13. Acorn woodpeckers: helping at the
nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop Walter D.
Koenig, Eric L. Walters and Joseph Haydock; 14. Taiwan yuhinas: unrelated
joint-nesters cooperate in unfavorable environments Sheng-Feng Shen,
Hsiao-Wei Yuan and Mark Liu; 15. Guira cuckoos: cooperation, infanticide,
and female reproductive investment in a joint-nesting species Regina H.
Macedo; 16. Cichlid fishes: a model for the integrative study of social
behavior Michael Taborsky; 17. Meerkats: cooperative breeding in the
Kalahari Tim Clutton-Brock and Marta Manser; 18. Banded mongooses:
demography, life history, and social behavior Michael A. Cant, Hazel J.
Nichols, Faye J. Thompson and Emma Vitikainen; 19. Damaraland and naked
mole-rats: convergence of social evolution Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C.
Bennett; 20. Synthesis: cooperative breeding in the twenty-first century
Walter D. Koenig, Janis L. Dickinson and Stephen T. Emlen; Taxonomic index;
Subject index.