Date of Award:
5-1967
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Wildland Resources
Department name when degree awarded
Zoology
Committee Chair(s)
Keith L. Dixon
Committee
Keith L. Dixon
Committee
D. M. Hammond
Committee
F. H. Wagner
Committee
H. H. Weibe
Committee
W. J. Hanson
Abstract
A controversy dating from the appearance of Altum's book, Der Vogel und sein Leben, 1868 (Mayr, 1935) is that of the biological function or functions of the territorial behavior in birds. However, attention was not focused upon this problem until the advent of Howard's book, Territory in Bird Life, published in 1920. In a general review of the problem Hinde (1956) discussed several functions of the territory and presented evidence both for and against their importance. The more important of these presumed functions are: (1) limitation of population density; (2) facilitation of pair formation and maintenance of the pair bond; (3) reduction in interference with reproductive activities by other members of the species; (4) provision of an adequate food supply for rearing the young; (5) reduction of loss to predators; (6) reduction of time spent in aggression; and (7) prevention of epidemics.
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Recommended Citation
Frydendall, Merrill J., "Feeding Ecology and Territorial Behavior of the Yellow Warbler" (1967). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2876.
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