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• catalog alternative "Darwin's Finches.".
• catalog contributor b748683.
• catalog created "c1986.".
• catalog date "1986".
• catalog date "c1986.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1986.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- Charles Darwin -- After Darwin -- The first synthesis -- Evolutionary inference -- Plan of the book -- 2. Characteristics of the islands -- Origins and ages -- Distribution and sizes -- Climate -- Plants -- Vegetation -- Changes in the past -- Changes in recent times -- Cocos Island -- 3. General characteristics and distribution of finches -- The main groups -- Genera -- Species -- Subspecies -- Distributions -- Patterns among the islands -- Extinctions -- Other land birds -- 4. Patterns of morphological variation -- Introduction -- The major simple patterns -- The minor simple patterns -- Correlations between traits -- Size -- Allometry -- Shape -- Multivariate shape variation -- Geographical variation in size -- 5. Growth and development -- Introduction -- Variation in egg size -- Absolute growth -- Relative growth -- 6. Beak size, beak shapes, and diets -- Introduction -- Feeding mechanics -- Feeding types -- Ecological significance of beak differences between species -- Dietary differences between species -- Dietary differences between populations of the same species -- Dietary differences among individuals in a variable population -- 7. The importance of food to finch populations -- Introduction -- Plant phenology in the arid zone -- Finch phenology -- Finch populations in relation to food supply -- Extreme conditions -- Food limitation of population sizes -- The frequency of food limitation -- Other factors limiting finch populations -- Interspecific competition for food -- 8. Population variation and natural selection -- Introduction -- Relative variation -- Theoretical background -- Field studies -- Genetic variation -- natural selection -- Sexual selection -- Countervailing selection -- A summary of selection drift -- Enhancement of genetic variation -- Variation in relation to abundance -- Other species".
• catalog description "9. Species-recognition and mate choice -- Introduction -- The possible cues used in species-recognition -- Morphological cues -- Song -- Song and bill morphology as species cues -- Imprinting -- The learning of heterotypic song -- Misimprinting -- Beyond species-recognition: mate choice -- 10. Evolution and speciation -- Evolution -- Origins -- The number of species -- The pattern of speciation -- The time framework -- Allopatric speciation -- Alternative models of speciation -- Parapatric speciation -- Sympatric speciation -- Alternatives to gradual genetic change -- Conclusions and summary -- 11. Ecological interactions during speciation -- Introduction -- Ecological isolation -- Causes of initial differentiation -- An alternative view -- Differentiation entirely in allopatry -- The food supply hypothesis -- Lack's evidence for competition -- Tests of the competition hypothesis -- Different explanations reconciled -- 12. Competition and finch communities -- Introduction -- Combinations of species -- Structure determined by competition -- Minimum differences between coexisting species -- Greater than minimum differences -- A digression on methods of analysis, and on bias -- Predictive models -- The classical case of character release -- 13. The evolution of reproductive isolation -- Introduction -- Experimental tests -- Implications of the experimental results -- Reinforcement? -- Absence of species from islands -- 14. Adaptation: body size, plumage coloration, and other traits -- Introduction -- Historical survey -- Body size -- Plumage -- Other features -- 15. Reconstruction of phylogeny -- Introduction -- Reconstructing the process of morphological divergence -- Comparison with contemporary selection -- Further evolution -- Ontogeny -- Phylogeny -- 16. Recapitulation and generalization -- Introduction -- Patterns and processes among modern finches -- Evolution -- Generalizations.".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. [415]-435.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 458 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches.".
• catalog identifier "0691084270 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog identifier "0691084289 (pbk. : alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches.".
• catalog issued "1986".
• catalog issued "c1986.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog relation "Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches.".
• catalog spatial "Galapagos Islands.".
• catalog subject "Birds Ecology Galapagos Islands.".
• catalog subject "Birds Evolution Galapagos Islands.".
• catalog subject "Finches Ecology Galapagos Islands.".
• catalog subject "Finches Ecology.".
• catalog subject "Finches Evolution Galapagos Islands.".
• catalog subject "Finches Evolution.".
• catalog subject "QL696.P246 G73 1986".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- Charles Darwin -- After Darwin -- The first synthesis -- Evolutionary inference -- Plan of the book -- 2. Characteristics of the islands -- Origins and ages -- Distribution and sizes -- Climate -- Plants -- Vegetation -- Changes in the past -- Changes in recent times -- Cocos Island -- 3. General characteristics and distribution of finches -- The main groups -- Genera -- Species -- Subspecies -- Distributions -- Patterns among the islands -- Extinctions -- Other land birds -- 4. Patterns of morphological variation -- Introduction -- The major simple patterns -- The minor simple patterns -- Correlations between traits -- Size -- Allometry -- Shape -- Multivariate shape variation -- Geographical variation in size -- 5. Growth and development -- Introduction -- Variation in egg size -- Absolute growth -- Relative growth -- 6. Beak size, beak shapes, and diets -- Introduction -- Feeding mechanics -- Feeding types -- Ecological significance of beak differences between species -- Dietary differences between species -- Dietary differences between populations of the same species -- Dietary differences among individuals in a variable population -- 7. The importance of food to finch populations -- Introduction -- Plant phenology in the arid zone -- Finch phenology -- Finch populations in relation to food supply -- Extreme conditions -- Food limitation of population sizes -- The frequency of food limitation -- Other factors limiting finch populations -- Interspecific competition for food -- 8. Population variation and natural selection -- Introduction -- Relative variation -- Theoretical background -- Field studies -- Genetic variation -- natural selection -- Sexual selection -- Countervailing selection -- A summary of selection drift -- Enhancement of genetic variation -- Variation in relation to abundance -- Other species".
• catalog tableOfContents "9. Species-recognition and mate choice -- Introduction -- The possible cues used in species-recognition -- Morphological cues -- Song -- Song and bill morphology as species cues -- Imprinting -- The learning of heterotypic song -- Misimprinting -- Beyond species-recognition: mate choice -- 10. Evolution and speciation -- Evolution -- Origins -- The number of species -- The pattern of speciation -- The time framework -- Allopatric speciation -- Alternative models of speciation -- Parapatric speciation -- Sympatric speciation -- Alternatives to gradual genetic change -- Conclusions and summary -- 11. Ecological interactions during speciation -- Introduction -- Ecological isolation -- Causes of initial differentiation -- An alternative view -- Differentiation entirely in allopatry -- The food supply hypothesis -- Lack's evidence for competition -- Tests of the competition hypothesis -- Different explanations reconciled -- 12. Competition and finch communities -- Introduction -- Combinations of species -- Structure determined by competition -- Minimum differences between coexisting species -- Greater than minimum differences -- A digression on methods of analysis, and on bias -- Predictive models -- The classical case of character release -- 13. The evolution of reproductive isolation -- Introduction -- Experimental tests -- Implications of the experimental results -- Reinforcement? -- Absence of species from islands -- 14. Adaptation: body size, plumage coloration, and other traits -- Introduction -- Historical survey -- Body size -- Plumage -- Other features -- 15. Reconstruction of phylogeny -- Introduction -- Reconstructing the process of morphological divergence -- Comparison with contemporary selection -- Further evolution -- Ontogeny -- Phylogeny -- 16. Recapitulation and generalization -- Introduction -- Patterns and processes among modern finches -- Evolution -- Generalizations.".
• catalog title "Darwin's Finches.".
• catalog title "Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches / Peter R. Grant.".
• catalog type "text".