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Title

Reproductive success : studies of individual variation in contrasting breeding systems / edited by T.H. Clutton-Brock ; with fifty-three contributors.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.

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Additional Authors

Clutton-Brock, T. H.

Description

ix, 538 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Sexual Behavior, Animal
• Reproduction
• Sexual selection in animals

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 487-520.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Editor's Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- T. H. Clutton-Brock -- Part One -- Insects -- 2. Lifetime Reproductive Success in Drosophila -- Linda Partridge -- 3. Sources of Variation in Lifetime Reproductive Success in a Nonterritorial Damselfly (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) -- Ola M. Fincke -- 4. The Opportunity for Sexual Selection in a Territorial Dragonfly, Erythemis simplicicollis -- Margaret E. McVey -- 5. Mating Success and Fecundity in an Ant-Tended Lycaenid Butterfly -- Mark A. Elgar and Naomi E. Pierce -- 6. Reproductive Success and Group Nesting in the Paper Wasp, Polistes annularis -- David C. Queller and Joan E. Strassmann -- Part Two- Amphibians -- 7. Reproductive Success in Two Species of Anurans -- Richard D. Howard -- Part Three -- Birds -- 8. The Great Tit, Parus major -- A. J. van Noordwijk and J. H. Balen -- 9. Lifetime Reproductive Success of the Giant Tit, Parus major -- R. H. McCleery and C. M. Perrins -- 10. Determinants of Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Song Sparrow -- James N. M. Smith -- 11. Lifetime Reproductive Success of House Martins -- David M. Bryant -- 12. Factors in Influencing Reproductive Success in the Pied Flycatcher -- Paul H. Harvey, Martyn J. Stenning, and Bruce Campbell -- 13. Age and Reproduction in the Sparrowhawk -- I. Newton -- 14. Reproductive Success in Bewick's Swans -- D. K. Scott -- 15. Reproductive Success in a Lesser Snow Goose Population -- F. Cooke and R. F. Rockwell -- 16. Reproductive Success of Kittiwake Gulls, Rissa tridactyla -- Callum S. Thomas and J. C. Coulson -- 17. Variation in Breeding Success in Fulmars -- Janet C. Ollason and G. M. Dunnet -- 18. Individual Variation in Reproductive Sucess in Male Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix L. -- J. P. Kruijt and G. J. de Vos -- 19. The Effect of Breeding-Unit Size on Fitness Components in Groove-billed Anis -- Sandra L. Vehrencamp, Rolf R. Koford, and Bonnie S. Bowen -- 20. Components of Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Florida Scrub Jay -- John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden -- Part Four -- Mammals -- 21. Reproductive Success in Male and Female Red Deer -- T. H. Clutton-Brock, S. D. Albon, and F. E. Guinness -- 22. Lifetime Reproductive Success in Northern Elephant Seals -- Burney J. Le Boeuf and Joanne Reiter -- 23. Reproductive Success of Lions -- Craig Packer, Lawrence Herbst, Anne E. Pusey, J. David Bygott, Jeannette P. Hanby, Sara J. Cairns, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- 24. Reproductive Success in Vervet Monkeys -- Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Sandy J. Andelman, and Phyllis C. Lee 25. Determinants of Reproductive Success in Savannah Baboons, Papio cynocephalus -- Jeanne Altmann, Glenn Hausfater, and Stuart A. Altmann -- 26. Reproductive Success in Three Kipsigis Cohorts -- Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- Part Five -- General Issues -- 27. Components of Lifetime Reproductive Success -- David Brown -- 28. On the Uses of Data on Lifetime Reproductive Success -- Alan Grafen -- 29. Reproductive Success -- T. H. Clutton-Brock -- References -- List of Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

ISBN

• 0226110583 :
• 0226110591 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^87016257^

OCLC

• 16225013
• SCSB-9967268

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library