The evolution of" niche breadth," or" niche width," was a more popular topic in the
evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109 …

Can sexual dimorphism evolve because of ecological differences between the sexes?
Although several examples of this phenomenon are well known from studies on birds, the …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

There is a tendency among biologists studying social behavior to regard the adult sex ratio
as an independent variable to which the species reacts with appropriate adaptations. D …

78 course ought to have been followed: the one would have been right and the other wrong;
but to these terms I shall have to recur. Sociability.—Animals of many kinds are social; we …

Autocorrelation is a very general statistical property of ecological variables observed across
geographic space; it most common forms are patches and gradients. Spatial autocorrelation …

The tiny island of South Bimini contains 4 species of lizards of he genus Anolis, a number
surpassed only on the 4 largest islands of the Greater Antilles and on 2 very large and …

The niche concept remains one of the most confusing, and yet important, topics in ecology.
Traditionally the concept refers to the functional role, particularly in trophic interactions, of a …

CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses Page 1 Page 2 CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
Second Edition Page 3 Page 4 CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an …

Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based
on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well …