Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow The Effect of Group Size on Social Behavior

Name: Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow The Effect of Group Size on Social Behavior
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ISBN: 9780226076256

ISBN-10: 0226076253

ISBN-13: 9780226076256

Edition: 1996

Authors: Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown

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Many animal species live and breed in colonies. Although biologists have documented numerous costs and benefits of group living, such as increased competition for limited resources and more pairs of eyes to watch for predators, they often still do not agree on why coloniality evolved in the first place. Drawing on their twelve-year study of a population of cliff swallows in Nebraska, the Browns investigate twenty-six social and ecological costs and benefits of coloniality, many never before addressed in a systematic way for any species. They explore how these costs and benefits are reflected in reproductive success and survivorship, and speculate on the evolution of cliff swallow…

Book details

List price: $176.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 580
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Field Methods and Data Analysis



Study Site and Study Population



Ectoparasitism



Competition for Nest Sites



Misdirected Parental Care: Extrapair Copulation, Brood Paratisism, and Mixing of Offspring



Shortage of Suitable Nesting Sites



Avoidance of Predators



Social Foraging



Natural History, Food Distribution, and Mechanisms of Information Transfer



Social Foraging



Effects of Colony Size



Reproductive Success



Survivorship



Colony Choice



The Evolution of Coloniality


Appendix


References


Index