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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Theory and Pattern of Life-History Evolution in Passerine Birds
Abstract
dc:descriptionA model of life-history evolution in passerine birds was developed to relate predicted traits to the maximum long-term rate of population increase. Differences in life-history traits among species were hypothesized to result from the interacting effects of mortality expressed as within-brood survivorship of offspring (resource effects), total breeding failure (nest predator effects), adult non-reproductive mortality, and adult reproductive risk. Variation in annual adult survivorship, clutch size, mating systems, and nest structure were predicted from the combined effects of various mortality factors.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Zoology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kulesza, George Charles
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8026542
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68732