Alternative Reproductive Tactics(ISBN=9780521540063)
The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behaviouralstrategies used by individuals to increase their reproductivesuccess) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest toresearchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest andeggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning andfertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity tostudy the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation,which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. Byintegrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary(behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a greatdiversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addressesthis integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together amultitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible formthat is ideal for graduate students and researchers. ? The problem of ART is addressed from both a mechanistic(physiological) and an evolutionary (behavioral ecology)perspective ? Mult
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