Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-854028-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

An important empirical test of the theoretical predictions of sexual selection theory, this book presents a long-term field study of the monagamous barn swallow. By using information on behaviour, ecology, morphology, genetics, and evolution, the book reviews this theory and its two components: male-male competition and female choice.

The selective advantages of a long tail are investigated for this common bird, demonstrating such effects as mating behaviour, copulation behaviour, migration strategies, and host-parasite interactions.

A rich informative text which clearly elucidates the mechanisms and consequences of sexual selection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moller, Anders P.

Mller, A. P.

M?ller, Anders Pape

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Vögel (Ornithologie)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: Introduction

- 2.: Models of sexual selection and monogamy

- 3.: The study organism

- 4.: Male mating advantages

- 5.: Benefits of mate choice

- 6.: Determinants of tail ornament size

- 7.: Advantages of early arrival

- 8.: Options for unmated males

- 9.: Parasites and sexual selection

- 10.: Parental care and male ornamentation

- 11.: Sperm competition and sexual selection

- 12.: Sexual size dimorphism and female ornaments

- 13.: Geographic variation in ornament size

- 14.: Synthesis

- References

- Author index

- Subject index

- Taxonomic index