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  • Life history and environmental influences on avian incubation and parental care in songbirds

    Creator:
    Austin-Bythell, Suzanne H.
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    Patterns of nest attendance behavior by breeding birds represent a parent-offspring trade-off in which adults balance self-maintenance with parental care decisions. Incubation, in particular, is of interest because adults must provide an environment suitable for embryonic development through nest-building and contact-incubation. We evaluated how adult incubation constancy and nest visitation...
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    Dissertation
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    a test of the food limitation hypothesis. Animal Behavior, 73, 579-585. Christensen, V. (1995

  • Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system

    Creator:
    Friesen, Christopher R.
    Abstract:
    Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many outstanding questions at every level of analysis, from proximate to ultimate. The fitness consequences for both sexes in the period after copulation and before fertilization...
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    Dissertation
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    promiscuity is common and widespread across animal taxa (Smith 1984; Birkhead & Møller 1998; Simmons 2001

  • Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Broad-scale Predictive Models : Influences of Scale

    Creator:
    Hooper, Samuel
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    Developing accurate predictive distribution models requires adequately representing relevant spatial and temporal scales, as these scales are ultimately reflective of the relationships between distributions and influential environmental conditions. In this research, we considered both spatial and temporal scale and the influence each has on predicting broad-scale distributions of two disparate...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (e.g., climate change [Schimel et al. 1997] or animal migrations [Bull et al. 2013]), and adequately