Topic 7: Habitat choice and territoriality - where and why? & Topic 8: Evolution of sex & mate choice- who &why

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Habitat choice (food, shelter,mates, reproduction)

A) Macrohabitat

B)Microhabitat

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Who wins territorial encounter

a) Arbitrary consensus

b) Resource-holding power

c) Payment asymmetry

d) Dear-enemy hypothesis 

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Sexual Reproduction

  1. Tangled bank hypothesis

  2. Red Queen hypothesis

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Tangled Bank hypothesis 

  • spatial heterogeneity

  • produce offspring different than either parent

  • improves the ability to utilize multiple or new niches

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Red Queen hypothesis

  • temporal heterogeneity

  • need to adapt to temporal changes in parasites, predators and prey

  • Main advantage to sex is production of offspring different than parents

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Behavioral tracts for production of two gamete types

Type 1 & Type 2

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Models of mate choice in females

  1. Direct benefits

  2. Honest signal

  3. Dissimilar male genotype

  4. Learned choices

    1. same-sex choice