Helping and communal breeding in birds : ecology and evolution, Jerram L. Brown

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Helping and communal breeding in birds : ecology and evolution, Jerram L. Brown

Title remainder

ecology and evolution

Statement of responsibility

Jerram L. Brown

Instantiates

• Helping and communal breeding in birds : ecology and evolution

Publication

• Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, ©1987

Note

Includes indexes

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. [309]-335

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

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• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

The discovery of helping behavior and a classification of avian communal breeding systems -- Climate, geography, and taxonomy -- Elements of inclusive fitness theory for field studies -- Delayed breeding sets the stage for helping -- Reduced dispersal sets the stage for helping -- Territorial inheritance as parental facilitation -- Mutualism, cost-sharing, and group size -- Mutualistic mating systems -- The genetic structure of social units --Direct fitness, mutualism, and reciprocity -- Parent-offspring relationships -- Infanticide, dominance and destructive behavior -- Diet and group territoriality

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25 cm.

Extent

xv, 354 pages

Isbn

9780691084572

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86018669

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

Record ID

99180489750001161

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(OCoLC)14001579