Evolutionary Ecology

Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Society versus the individual in animal evolution....Pages 5-17 Population limitation and the adaptive value of territorial behaviour in Scottish Red grouse, Lagopus 1. scoticus....Pages 19-26 Natural selection and the regulation of density in cyclic and non-cyclic populations....Pages 27-32 Factors affecting population density in the wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.), and their relevance to small mammals....Pages 33-46 Song and territory in the Great tit Parus major....Pages 47-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Comparative ecology of seabirds in the Galapagos Archipelago....Pages 65-76 Some relationships between food and breeding in the marine Pelecaniformes....Pages 77-87 Coexistence and diversity in Heteromyid rodents....Pages 89-99 Courtship-feeding and clutch size in Common terns Sterna hirundo....Pages 101-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-112 Timing and success of breeding in tundra-nesting geese....Pages 113-126 The evolutionary significance of co-operative breeding in birds....Pages 127-135 Helpers at the nest in some Argentine blackbirds....Pages 137-151 The occurrence of time-saving mechanisms in the breeding biology of the Great tit, Parus major....Pages 153-169 Latitudinal gradients in clutch size: an extension of David Lack’s theory....Pages 171-179 The role of predation in the evolution of clutch size....Pages 181-191 A note on the evolution of clutch size in altricial birds....Pages 193-214 Clutch size in the Compositae....Pages 215-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Echolocation and the systematics of swiftlets....Pages 225-238 Duetting and other synchronised displays of the blue-backed manakins, Chiroxiphia Spp....Pages 239-251 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Reliability in communication systems and the evolution of altruism....Pages 253-259 The adaptive significance of variations in reproductive habit in the Agavaceae....Pages 261-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-310