Behavioral ecology of tropical animals

Edited By
  • Regina Macedo

Hardbound, 352 Pages

Published: October 2010

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-380894-3

Contents

  • 1 - Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice

    Constantino Macías Garcia and Alejandra Valero

    2 - A Spatial Dance to the Music of Time in the Leks of Long-tailed Manakins

    David B. McDonald

    3 - Host Use by Generalist and Specialist Brood Parasitic Cowbirds at Population and Individual Levels

    María C. de Mársico, Bettina Mahler, Manuela Chomnalez, Alejandro G. Di Giácomo and Juan C. Reboreda

    4 - Dealing with Uncertainty: Flexible Reproductive Strategies in a Tropical Passerine Bird in an Unstable Ecological and Social Environment

    Michael S. Webster, Jordan Karubian and Hubert Schwabl

    5 - Color in a Long-lived Tropical Seabird: Sexual Selection in a Life History Context

    Roxana Torres and Alberto Velando

    6 - Intra-specific Variation in the Behavioral Ecology of a Tropical Carnivore, the Spotted Hyena

    Kay E. Holekamp and Stephanie M. Dloniak

    7 - Ecology, Social Behavior and Conservation in Zebras

    Daniel I. Rubenstein

    8 - Social Organization in Callithrix jacchus: Cooperation and Competition

    Maria Emília Yamamoto, Arrilton Araújo, Maria Bernardete C. de Sousa and Maria de Fátima Arruda

    9 - Ecological Determinants of Social Systems: Perspectives on the Functional Role of Roosting Ecology in the Social Behavior of Tent-roosting Bats

    Gloriana Chaverri and Thomas H. Kunz

     

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