Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Reboreda, Juan Carlos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fiorini, Vanina Dafne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tuero, Diego Tomás (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Behavioral sciences.; Animal ecology.; Animal systematics.; Animal taxonomy.; Evolutionary biology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Animal Ecology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book covers central aspects of behavioral ecology, including sexual selection, social and genetic mating systems, cooperative breeding, brood parasitism, brood reduction, migration, personalities and communication. Over the past several years, Neotropical bird species from temperate to tropical...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Social mating system divergence between north and south temperate Wrens
• Understanding variation in extra-pair paternity in birds: a focus on Neotropical birds
• Cooperative and Communal Breeding
• Sexual selection and mating systems: contributions from a Neotropical passerine model
• Brood reduction in Neotropical birds: mechanisms, patterns and insights from studies in the Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps)
• Obligate brood parasitism on Neotropical birds
• Bird migration in South America: The Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) as a case study
• Visual and acoustic communication in Neotropical birds: diversity and evolution of signals
• A reappraisal of the fruit-taking and fruit-handling behaviors of Neotropical birds
• Perspectives on the study of field hummingbird cognition in the neotropics
• Index.