Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive
account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration …

Parents of most insects provide no care for their offspring beyond supplying the eggs with a
small amount of yolk and placing them in a location that is relatively safe from environmental …

A fundamental premise of life‐history theory is that organisms that increase current
reproductive investment suffer increased mortality. Possibly the most studied life‐history …

Summary 1 Elevational gradients create environmental variation that is hypothesized to
promote variation in life‐history strategies. We tested whether differences in life‐history …

The exploration of the effects of urbanization on bird demography has attracted much
attention, and several studies found lower reproductive success in towns, which suggested …

For multiple-brooded species, the number of reproductive events per year is a major
determinant of an individual's fitness. Where multiple brooding is facultative, its occurrence …

How environmental conditions affect the timing and extent of parental care is a fundamental
question in comparative studies of life histories. The post‐fledging period is deemed critical …

Studies of parental care in tropical birds are still relatively scarce in comparison with
northern temperate species, especially regarding to the division of parental tasks, leading to …

Birds have colonized almost every terrestrial habitat on the planet-from the poles to the
tropics, and from deserts to high mountain tops. Ecological and Environmental Physiology of …

Public information (PI), which is the information that can be derived from the behavior and
performance of conspecifics, has been demonstrated to be used in many fitness‐enhancing …