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Description: |
100 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-100). |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Aphelocoma jays -- Study area and methods. Location of study area -- Climate -- Vegetation -- Methods -- Food and foraging. Seasonal abundance of food -- Seasonal foraging behavior of breeders and floaters -- Territories and territorial behavior. Territorial behavior -- Territory acquisition -- Territory characteristics -- Dispersals and floating. Juvenile dispersal -- Floater movements and dispersion patterns in the nonbreeding season -- Floater movements and dispersion patterns during the breeding season -- Social organization of floaters -- Dispersal distances -- Reproduction. Breeding chronology -- Annual production of fledglings and independent young -- Factors influencing reproductive success -- Ecological and environmental effects -- Effects of age and experience -- Survivorship. Survivorship of breeders -- Annual survivorship -- Life tables and survivorship of nonbreeders -- The life tables -- Estimating lifetime reproductive success -- Test of theories and comparisons. Brown's theory of habitat saturation and group living -- The marginal habitat hypothesis -- The Florida scrub-jay model -- The benefits of philopatry model -- Delayed dispersal threshold model -- Synopsis. Scrub-jay dispersal and floating in Central Coastal California. |
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Series Added Entry: |
Studies in avian biology ; no. 28. |