Geographic Variation in Behavior: Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms

Geographic Variation in Behavior

Can ecotypic differences in male courtship behavior be explained by visual cues provided by female threespine stickleback?

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Plasticity and evolution in the adaptive radiation of the threespine stickleback. Linking genotype and Phenotype in development and evolution.

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Geographic Variation in Behavior shows that, on the contrary, there is substantional variation Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms. Geographic Variation in Behavior: Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms. Front Cover. Susan A. Foster, John A. Endler. Oxford University Press, Mar 4.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , —, doi: Predation history and vulnerability: Conservation of the stickleback adaptive radiation. Relaxed Selection in the Wild. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. In Geographic variation in behavior: Oxford University Press, Oxford. Reproduction in two Lesser Antillean populations of Ameiva plei Teiidae. Phenotypic similarity and the evolutionary significance of countergradient variation.

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Downes SJ, Adams M. Geographic variation in antisnake tactics: Drummond H, Burghardt GM. Geographic variation in the foraging behavior of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits induced by food availability in a lacertid lizard, Takydromus septentrionalis.

Identifying sources of variation in reproductive and life-history traits among five populations of a Chinese lizard Takydromus septentrionalis , Lacertidae. Demographic and life-history variation among populations of the iguanid lizard Urosaurus ornatus: Life history patterns in squamate reptiles. In Biology of the Reptilia. Defense and life history. The tropical tree flora of Andros Island, Bahamas: Bahamian Field Station, Ltd. Variation in clutch and litter size in New World reptiles.

In Captive management and conservation of amphibians and reptiles. Gillis R, Ballinger RE. Reproductive ecology of red-chinned lizards Sceloporus undulates erythrocheilus in southcentral Colorado: Gotthard K, Nylin S. Adaptive plasticity and plasticity as an adaptation: Geographic variation in reproductive characteristics among Canadian populations of the common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis. Conservation of an endangered Bahamian rock iguana. Population assessments, habitat restoration, and behavioral ecology. The origin of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. In Contributions to West Indian herpetology: Potential causes and life-history consequences of sexual size dimorphism in mammals.

Behavior and ecology of the rock iguana, Cyclura carinata. Adaptations to herbivory in iguanine lizards. In Iguanas of the world: Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, N. The nesting ecology of the Allen Cays rock iguana, Cyclura cychlura inornata in the Bahamas. Factors affecting long-term growth of the Allen Cays rock iguana in the Bahamas.

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Behavior and ecology of the rock iguana, Cyclura carinata. Canadian Journal of Zoology. Habitat stability and predation pressure influence learning and memory in populations of Three-Spined Sticklebacks. Evolutionary Ecology Research Quaternary Science Reviews

Influence of toe-clipping on running speed in Eulamprus quoyii , an Australian scincid lizard. Journal of Herpetology Risk sensitive antipredatory behavior in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Habitat stability and predation pressure influence learning and memory in populations of Three-Spined Sticklebacks.

Mechanisms Of Evolutionary Change

An experimental test of the ideal despotic distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology Species numbers, density compensation, and colonizing ability of lizards on islands in the Gulf of California. Inter-populational variation in the cost of autotomy in the Metallic Skink Niveoscincus metallicus. Ease and effectiveness of costly autotomy vary with predation intensity among lizard populations. Alternative mating strategies and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the Side-blotched Lizard, Uta stansburiana: Effects of relaxed natural selection on the evolution of behavior.

Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms, pp. Oxford University Press , New York.