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an integrated approach

edited by Ken A. Otter.

Oxford University Press

2007

xxiv, 319 p. ill.

Oxford ornithology

Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction to the North American Paridae / Susan M. Smith -- Neurobiology of spatial behavior / David F. Sherry and Jennifer S. Hoshooley -- The relationship between environment, corticosterone, food caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus in chickadees / Vladimir V. Pravosudov -- Photoperiodism and the annual cycle of black-capped chickadees / Leslie S. Phillmore and Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton -- Fine-scale variation in the timing of reproduction in titmice and chickadees / Scott M. Ramsay and Ken A. Otter -- Synopsis 1. Proximate mechanisms in behavior and evolution / David F. Sherry ... [et al.] -- Phylogeography of chestnut-backed chickadees in western North America / Theresa M. Burg -- Behavioral aspects of chickadee hybridization / Robert L. Curry, Lindsay M. Rossano and Matthew W. Reudink -- Life in the small-bodied cavity-nester guild : demography of sympatric mountain and black-capped chickadees within nest web communities under changing habitat conditions / Kathy Martin and Andrea R. Norris -- Social dominance and fitness in black-capped chickadees / Laurene Ratcliffe, Daniel J. Mennill and Kristin A. Schubert -- Synopsis 2. Parid reproductive behavior / Daniel J. Mennill ... [et al.] -- Chickadee vocal production and perception : an integrative approach to understanding acoustic communication / Christopher B. Sturdy ... [et al.] -- The gargle call of black-capped chickadees : ontogeny, acoustic structure, population patterns, function, and processes leading to sharing of call characteristics / Myron C. Baker and David E. Gammon -- How postdispersal social environment may influence acoustic variation in birdsong / David E. Gammon -- "Information" and the chick-a-dee call : communicating with a complex vocal system / Jeffrey R. Lucas and Todd M. Freeberg -- Status signalling and communication networks in chickadees : complex communcation with a simple song / Daniel J. Mennill and Ken A. Otter -- Synopsis 3. Complexities in vocal communication / Todd M. Freeberg ... [et al.] -- Edge, patch, and landscape effects on parid distribution and movements / Andre Desrochers and Marc Belisle -- Winter adaptations in chickadees and titmice and the added effect of habitat fragmentation / Jennifer R. Olson and Thomas C. Grubb Jr. -- Habitat quality and reproductive behavior in chickadees and tits : potential for habitat matrix use in forest generalists / Ken A. Otter, Harry van Oort and Kevin T. Fort -- Synopsis 4. Landscape ecology, behavior, and conservation issues / Andre Desrochers ... [et al.] -- What drives differences between North American and Eurasian tit studies? / Andre A. Dhondt.

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