Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds
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, Neotro
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al Ecology of Neotropical Birds
Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds
Juan Carlos Reboreda • Vanina Dafne Fiorini Diego Tomás Tuero Editors
Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds
Editors Juan Carlos Reboreda Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales University of Buenos Aires Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vanina Dafne Fiorini Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales University of Buenos Aires Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diego Tomás Tuero Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales University of Buenos Aires Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Preface
Behavioral ecology studies the adaptive value (or fitness consequences) of animal behavior. The discipline emerged from ethology in the 1960s and 1970s of the previous century from seminal works of Bill Hamilton, John Maynard Smith, George Williams, and Robert Trivers, among others. Its aim was to understand the behavioral patterns as a result of selective pressures from the physical and social environment in which animals have evolved. Many studies in behavioral ecology have been conducted in birds, probably because birds are ubiquitous, mostly diurnals, conspicuous, and therefore easy to observe and to study. Thus, birds had a high impact on the development of behavioral ecology, and behavioral ecology has been equally important in the advance of ornithology, as shown in the indexes of the main ornithological journals. The majority of the studies on bird behavioral ecology have been conducted in the Palearctic and Nea
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