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9789810242602

Vertebrate Mating Systems

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    9789810242602

  • ISBN10:

    9810242603

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Proceedings of the 14th Course of the International School of Ethnology held in Erice, Italy, on November 28 - December 3, 1998. Synthesis of recent advances in understanding of the ecological causes and consequences of variation in vertebrate mating systems.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(7)
Marco Apollonio
Marco Festa-Bianchet
Sexual selection and mate choice: trade-offs for males and females
8(39)
R. Haven Wiley
Ornaments and good genes: progress in research through paradoxes and paradigms
47(19)
Rauno V. Alatalo
Mating systems and morphology: what can phylogenies tell us about the evolution of sexual dimorphism in lekking birds?
66(14)
Jacob Hoglund
Demographic analyses of mating systems
80(26)
David B. McDonald
Environmental effects on the evolution of mating systems in endotherms
106(34)
Juan Carranza
Environmental variation: the effects on vertebrate mating systems with special reference to ectotherms
140(19)
Miranda L. Dyson
Mating patterns, sexual selection and parental care: an integrative approach
159(27)
Tamas Szekely
James N. Webb
Innes C. Cuthill
Vertebrate mating systems, Allee effects and conservation
186(28)
Philip A. Stephens
William J. Sutherland
Mating systems and conservation at large spatial scales
214(39)
John T. Hogg
A retrospective and prospective look at the role of genetics in mating systems: toward a balanced view of the sexes
253(54)
David F. Westneat
Genetics of avian mating systems
307
Peter T. Boag
Laurene M. Ratcliffe

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