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Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds / Ken Yasukawa, William A. Searcy.
Author
Searcy, William A.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Course Book
Published/Created
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description
1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations.
Availability
Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999
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Subject(s)
Sexual selection in animals
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Polygyny in animals
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Red-winged blackbird
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Behavior
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Author
Yasukawa, Ken
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Series
Monographs in behavior and ecology.
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Princeton paperbacks.
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Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 289
Summary note
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 time. The authors show that females choose to mate polygynously because there is little cost to sharing male parental care in this species, and because females gain protection against nest predation by nesting near other females. Polygyny has the effect of intensifying sexual selection on males by increasing the variance in mating success among males. For females, polygyny means that they will often share a male's territory with other females during the breeding season and will thus be forced to adapt to frequent female-female interactions.This work reviews the results of many studies by other researchers, as well as presenting the authors' own results. Studies of red-winged blackbirds have ranged from long-term investigations of reproductive success and demography, to research on genetic parentage based on modern molecular methods, to a variety of experimental manipulations of ecological circumstances and behavior. Since the red-winged blackbird is one of the best studied species of any taxa in terms of its behavior and ecology, the authors have a particularly extensive body of results on which to base their conclusions.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and indexes.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
Language note
English
Contents
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
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ISBN
0-691-60107-0
0-691-63083-6
0-691-03687-X
1-4008-6393-7
OCLC
889252880
979624519
Doi
10.1515/9781400863938
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