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Variable Cone Crops, Migration, and Dynamics of a Population of Mountain Chickadees (Parus Gambeli)

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Food is a required resource for individual survival and reproduction, and hence for population stability and persistence (Lack 1954). Wynne-Edwards (1962) suggested that social behaviour functions to regulate population densities within levels sustainable by resources, but his proposal that such behaviour evolves by group selection led to rejection of the entire idea. More recently, Gauthreaux (1978) has argued that dominance-mediated access to local resources can influence which individuals in a population are most likely to emigrate. Murray (1979), Pulliam (1987, 1988), and Łomnicki (1988) have integrated this notion into models showing that social behaviour characterized by individually-selected, rank-related resource access and emigration can enhance population stability. The amount of resource variation in the local environment and the success of the social system at mitigating its effects on population density naturally influence the type of social system that evolves.

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  1. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, SC, 29802, USA

    D. Archibald McCallum

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  1. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, B.P. 5051, 34033, Montpellier Cédex, France

    Jacques Blondel

  2. Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, Great Britain

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  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, B.P. 5051, 34033, Montpellier Cédex, France

    Jean-Dominique Lebreton

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McCallum, D.A. (1990). Variable Cone Crops, Migration, and Dynamics of a Population of Mountain Chickadees (Parus Gambeli). In: Blondel, J., Gosler, A., Lebreton, JD., McCleery, R. (eds) Population Biology of Passerine Birds. NATO ASI Series, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75110-3_8

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