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Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice An Integrated Approach

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ISBN-10: 0198569998

ISBN-13: 9780198569992

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ken A. Otter

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Chickadees and titmice are among the most popular birds in North America, due in large part to their readiness to use bird feeders, to nest in urban gardens, and even to be trained to take food from people's hands. These attributes have also made them (and their Eurasian tit counterparts) perhaps the most intensively studied bird family in the world. Long-term research in Europe has yielded some of the most comprehensive data on the impact of global warming on the breedingecology of birds. Chickadees have amongst the best-studied and most complex vocal behaviour of any bird species, displaying one of the closest analogies to human sentence structure in the animal kingdom in their familiar…    
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Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/29/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.68" wide x 10.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

Introduction to the North American Paridae
Proximate mechanisms in behavior and evolution
Neurobiology of spatial behavior
The relationship between environment, corticosterone, food caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus in chickadees
Photoperiodism and the annual cycle of black-capped chickadees
Fine-scale variation in the timing of reproduction in titmice and chickadees
Proximate mechanisms in behavior and evolution
Reproductive ecology, evolution, and behavior
Phylogeography of chestnut-backed chickadees in western North America
Behavioral aspects of chickadee hybridization
Life in the small-bodied cavity-nester guild : demography of sympatric mountain and black-capped chickadees within nest web communities under changing habitat conditions
Social dominance and fitness in black-capped chickadees
Parid reproductive behavior
Vocal communication
Chickadee vocal production and perception : an integrative approach to understanding acoustic communication
The gargle call of black-capped chickadees : ontogeny, acoustic structure, population patterns, function, and processes leading to sharing of call characteristics
How postdispersal social environment may influence acoustic variation in birdsong
"Information" and the chick-a-dee call : communicating with a complex vocal system
Status signaling and communication networks in chickadees : complex communication with a simple song
Complexities in vocal communication
Landscape ecology, behavior, and conservation issues
Edge, patch, and landscape effects on parid distribution and movements
Winter adaptations in chickadees and titmice and the added effect of habitat fragmentation
Habitat quality and reproductive behavior in chickadees and tits : potential for habitat matrix use in forest generalists
Landscape ecology, behavior, and conservation issues
What drives differences between North American and Eurasian tit studies?