Mating Systems

11/25/02


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Table of Contents

Mating Systems

Causes of spacing patterns

Parental care and female dispersion influence mating system

Monogamy

Social monogamy

Mate assistance in Peromyscus californicus

Mate assistance monogamy in snow buntings

Social monogamy ƒ genetic monogamy

Polygyny (> 90% of mammals)

Ecological correlates of polygyny

Polygyny (< 10% of birds)

Ecological factors affecting polygyny

Habitat heterogeneity

Resource defense polygyny

Polygyny threshold model

Polygyny threshold predictions

Polygyny in pied flycatchers

Polygyny in anolis lizards depends on size

Polyandry

Ecological reasons for polyandry

Why should females multiple mate?

Pseudoscorpions gain fertility benefit

Human mating systems

Author: Jerry Wilkinson

Email: gw10@umail.umd.edu

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