Bird Coloration, Volume 2, Function and Evolution

Edited by Geoffrey E. Hill

Edited by Kevin J. McGraw

    Preface

    I. Function

    1. Natural selection and avian coloration: protection, concealment, advertisement, or deception?
    Gary R. Bortolotti

    2. Intraspecific variation in bird colors
    James Dale

    3. Bird colors as intrasexual signals of aggression and dominance
    Juan Carlos Senar

    4. Female mate choice for ornamental coloration in birds
    Geoffrey E. Hill

    5. The function and evolution of color in young birds
    Rebecca M. Kilner

    6. Benefits to female birds of assessing color displays
    Simon C. Griffith and Sarah R. Pryke

    7. Female coloration in birds: a review of functional and non-functional hypotheses
    Trond Amundsen and Henrik Paern

    II. Evolution

    8. Colorful phenotypes of colorless genotypes: Towards a new evolutionary synthesis of bird color displays
    Alexander V. Badyaev

    9. Ecological explanations for interspecific variability in avian coloration
    Ian P. F. Owens

    10. Adding color to the past: Ancestral-state reconstruction of bird coloration
    Kevin E. Omland and Christopher M. Hofmann

    Acknowledgments

    Contributors

    Index

  • Cover: Bird Coloration, Volume 2, Function and Evolution

Geoffrey E. Hill is Alumni Professor of Biological Sciences, Auburn University.

Kevin J. McGraw is Assistant Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University.