Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter‐and intra‐sexual
selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The timing of settlement decisions likely influences the quality of breeding site choices. This
is particularly the case in migratory birds, because the conditions that enhance breeding …

Seasonal patterns in territorial behaviour are common in many species, and are often
attributed to the adaptive benefits of increased defence or the provision of information to …

Elaborate plumages and songs in male birds provide classic evidence for Darwinian sexual
selection. However, trait elaboration in birds is not gender-restricted: female song has …

Food availability is a major evolutionary force that has direct effects on an individual's body
condition. Since sexually selected traits are often condition-dependent, they are likely to …

To be used as honest signals of quality, phenotypic traits must vary markedly within
populations and show repeatable differences between individuals. Eastern kingbirds …

Abstract Effects of alternate mating strategies on the opportunity for sexual selection are
widely debated, and recent studies have concluded that the effects of extrapair (EP) …

Why do people feed wild birds? It is intuitively clear that humans feel delighted by the
presence of birds that they can manage to attract by offering ordinary seeds at a feeder …

Stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) models predict that males singing to attract a mate
should concentrate singing in what has been termed the dawn chorus. This is because male …