Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating Systems, and Extinction Book

I	Comparative Biology of Birds	1
1	Diverse birds and puzzles	3
2	Comparative methods	6
II	Natural Selection and Diversity in Life-Histories	27
3	Diversity among living species	29
4	Patterns of covariation between life-history traits	34
5	Ecological basis of life-history diversity	50
6	Further problems	62
III	Sexual Selection and Diversity in Mating Systems	75
7	Variation in mating systems and sexual dimorphism	77
8	Ecological basis of mating system diversity	91
9	Ecological basis of sexual dimorphism	130
10	Further problems	151
IV	Birth and Death of Bird Species	163
11	Variation in extinction risk and species richness	165
12	Explaining variation in extinction risk	168
13	Explaining variation in species richness	180
14	Further problems	189
V	Conclusions	203
	References	207
	Appendices	241
App. 1	Life-history variation	242
App. 2	Mating systems and sexual selection	247
App. 3	Extinction risk and species richness	253
App. 4	Ecology and parental care	259
	Author index	265
	Family names index	272
	Subject index	275