Book contents
- Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
- Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Siberian jays: Delayed dispersal in the absence of cooperative breeding
- 2 Western bluebirds: Lessons from a marginal cooperative breeder
- 3 Long-tailed tits: Ecological causes and fitness consequences of redirected helping
- 4 Red-cockaded woodpeckers: Alternative pathways to breeding success
- 5 Florida scrub-jays: Oversized territories and group defense in a fire-maintained habitat
- 6 Carrion crows: Family living and helping in a flexible social system
- 7 Southern pied babblers: The dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a group-living society
- 8 Superb fairy-wrens: Making the worst of a good job
- 9 Chestnut-crowned babblers: Dealing with climatic adversity and uncertainty in the Australian arid zone
- 10 Bell miners: Kin-selected helping decisions
- 11 Superb starlings: Cooperation and conflict in an unpredictable environment
- 12 Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox
- 13 Acorn woodpeckers: Helping at the nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop
- 14 Taiwan yuhinas: Unrelated joint-nesters cooperate in unfavorable environments
- 15 Guira cuckoos: Cooperation, infanticide, and female reproductive investment in a joint-nesting species
- 16 Cichlid fishes: A model for the integrative study of social behavior
- 17 Meerkats: Cooperative breeding in the Kalahari
- 18 Banded mongooses: Demography, life history, and social behavior
- 19 Damaraland and naked mole-rats: Convergence of social evolution
- 20 Synthesis: Cooperative breeding in the twenty-first century
- Index
- References
11 - Superb starlings: Cooperation and conflict in an unpredictable environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2015
Book contents
- Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
- Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Siberian jays: Delayed dispersal in the absence of cooperative breeding
- 2 Western bluebirds: Lessons from a marginal cooperative breeder
- 3 Long-tailed tits: Ecological causes and fitness consequences of redirected helping
- 4 Red-cockaded woodpeckers: Alternative pathways to breeding success
- 5 Florida scrub-jays: Oversized territories and group defense in a fire-maintained habitat
- 6 Carrion crows: Family living and helping in a flexible social system
- 7 Southern pied babblers: The dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a group-living society
- 8 Superb fairy-wrens: Making the worst of a good job
- 9 Chestnut-crowned babblers: Dealing with climatic adversity and uncertainty in the Australian arid zone
- 10 Bell miners: Kin-selected helping decisions
- 11 Superb starlings: Cooperation and conflict in an unpredictable environment
- 12 Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox
- 13 Acorn woodpeckers: Helping at the nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop
- 14 Taiwan yuhinas: Unrelated joint-nesters cooperate in unfavorable environments
- 15 Guira cuckoos: Cooperation, infanticide, and female reproductive investment in a joint-nesting species
- 16 Cichlid fishes: A model for the integrative study of social behavior
- 17 Meerkats: Cooperative breeding in the Kalahari
- 18 Banded mongooses: Demography, life history, and social behavior
- 19 Damaraland and naked mole-rats: Convergence of social evolution
- 20 Synthesis: Cooperative breeding in the twenty-first century
- Index
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Cooperative Breeding in VertebratesStudies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, pp. 181 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
References
Akçay, C., Swift, R. J., Reed, V. A., and Dickinson, J. L. (2013). Vocal kin recognition in kin neighborhoods of western bluebirds. Behav. Ecol., 24, 898–905.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Augustine, D. J. (2003). Long-term, livestock-mediated redistribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in an East African savanna. J. Appl. Ecol., 40, 137–149.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Augustine, D. J., Veblen, K. E., Goheen, J. R., Riginos, C., and Young, T. P. (2011). Pathways for positive cattle-wildlife interactions in semiarid rangelands. In: Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewaso Ecosystem, ed. Georgiadis, N. J.. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, pp. 55–71.Google Scholar
Botero, C. A. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2012). Fluctuating environments, sexual selection and the evolution of flexible mate choice in birds. PLoS One, 7, e32311.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Brown, J. L. (1987). Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds: Ecology and Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Durrer, H. (1970). Schillerfarben der stare (Sturnidae) [Iridescent colors of the starlings (Sturnidae)]. J. Ornithol., 111, 133–153.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Emlen, S. T. (1982). The evolution of helping. 1. An ecological constraints model. Am. Nat., 119, 29–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feare, C. and Craig, A. (1999). Starlings and Mynas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Fry, C.H., Keith, S., and Urban, E.K. (2000). The Birds of Africa. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Goheen, J. R. and Palmer, T. M. (2010). Defensive plant-ants stabilize megaherbivore-driven landscape change in an African savanna. Curr. Biol., 20, 1768–1772.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hatchwell, B. J. and Komdeur, J. (2000). Ecological constraints, life history traits and the evolution of cooperative breeding. Anim. Behav., 59, 1079–1086.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hauber, M. E. and Lacey, E. A. (2005). Bateman’s principle in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: the effects of nonbreeding alloparents on variability in female and male reproductive success. Integr. Comp. Biol., 45, 903–914.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Huntzinger, M. (2005). How do distantly related herbivores that share food resources interact? Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Davis, USA.Google Scholar
Jetz, W. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2011). Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds. Curr. Biol., 21, 72–78.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Keen, S. C., Meliza, C. D., and Rubenstein, D. R. (2013). Flight calls signal group and individual identity but not kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behav. Ecol., 24, 1279–1285.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koenig, W. D., Pitelka, F. A., Carmen, W. J., Mumme, R. L., and Stanback, M. T. (1992). The evolution of delayed dispersal in cooperative breeders. Q. Rev. Biol., 67, 111–150.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koenig, W. D., Walters, E. L., and Haydock, J. (2011). Variable helper effects, ecological conditions, and the evolution of cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker. Am. Nat., 178, 145–158.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Konovalov, D. A., Manning, C., and Henshaw, M. T. (2004). KINGROUP: a program for pedigree relationship reconstruction and kin group assignments using genetic markers. Mol. Ecol. Res., 4, 779–782.Google Scholar
Lovette, I. J. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2007). A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation. Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 44, 1031–1056.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lovette, I. J., McCleery, B. V., Talaba, A. L., and Rubenstein, D. R. (2008). A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group. Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 47, 251–260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lyon, B. E. and Montgomerie, R. (2012). Sexual selection is a form of social selection. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B, 367, 2266–2273.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Maia, R., Rubenstein, D. R., and Shawkey, M. D. (2013). Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 110, 10687–10692.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McDonald, P. G. and Wright, J. (2011). Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin. Proc. R. Soc. London B, 278, 3403–3411.Google ScholarPubMed
Michener, C. D. (1964). Reproductive efficiency in relation to colony size in hymenopterous societies. Insectes Sociaux, 11, 317–341.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pilowsky, J. A. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2013). Social context and the lack of sexual dimorphism in song in an avian cooperative breeder. Anim. Behav., 85, 709–714.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubenstein, D. R. (2006). The evolution of the social and mating systems of the plural cooperatively breeding superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus. Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.Google Scholar
Rubenstein, D. R. (2007a). Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity. Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B, 274, 1895–1903.Google Scholar
Rubenstein, D. R. (2007b). Stress hormones and sociality: integrating social and environmental stressors. Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B, 274, 967–975.Google ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R. (2007c). Temporal but not spatial environmental variation drives adaptive offspring sex allocation in a plural cooperative breeder. Am. Nat., 170, 155–165.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R. (2007d). Territory quality drives intraspecific patterns of extrapair paternity. Behav. Ecol., 18, 1058–1064.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubenstein, D. R. (2011). Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion and the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 108, 10816–10822.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubenstein, D. R. (2012). Family feuds: social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B, 367, 2304–2313.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R. and Lovette, I. J. (2007). Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Curr. Biol., 17, 1414–1419.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R. and Lovette, I. J. (2009). Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature, 462, 786–789.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R. and Shen, S.-F. (2009). Reproductive conflict and the costs of social status in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Am. Nat., 173, 650–661.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rubenstein, D. R., Parlow, A. F., Hutch, C. R., and Martin, L. B., II (2008). Environmental and hormonal correlates of immune activity in a cooperatively breeding tropical bird. Gen. Comp. Endocrin., 159, 10–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sharp, S. P., McGowan, A., Wood, M. J., and Hatchwell, B. J. (2005). Learned kin recognition cues in a social bird. Nature, 434, 1127–1130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shen, S.-F., Akçay, E., and Rubenstein, D. R. (2014). Group size and social conflict in complex societies. Am. Nat., 183, 301–310.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stoddard, P. K. (1996). Vocal recognition of neighborhoods by territorial passerines. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds, ed. Kroodsma, D. E., and Miller, E. H.. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 356–374.Google Scholar
Trivers, R. L. and Willard, D. E. (1973). Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science, 179, 90–92.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tyack, P. L. (2008). Convergence of calls as animals form social bonds, active compensation for noisy communication channels, and the evolution of vocal learning in mammals. J. Comp. Physiol., 122, 319–331.Google ScholarPubMed
Young, A. J. and Bennett, N. C. (2013). Intra-sexual selection in cooperative mammals and birds: why are females not bigger or better armed? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B, 368 20130075.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Young, T. P., Patridge, N., and Maccrae, A. (1995). Long-term glades in acacia bushland and their edge effects in Laikipia, Kenya. Ecol. Appl., 5, 97–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, T. P., Okello, B. D., Kinyua, D., and Palmer, T. M. (1998). KLEE: A long-term multi-species herbivore exclusion experiment in Laikipia, Kenya. African J. Range Forage Sci., 14, 92–104.Google Scholar
- 18
- Cited by