Conspecific Recognition Systems and the Rehabilitation of the Biological Species Concept in Ornithology [chapter]

V. S.
2013 The Species Problem - Ongoing Issues  
1 the composition of the latter is extremely heterogeneous (e.g., [57] [58] ). On the one hand, these are all kinds of "losers" in the competition, who have lost their territory and/or a partner because of the inefficiency of behavior, the wrong choice of life strategy, etc., or non-territorial vagrant individuals that had never had either. On the other hand -they are the deported from areas where the species habitat had been destroyed by a local disaster, such as fire, floods, deforestation,
more » ... c. On the third -they are, on the contrary, the "best" specimens, the winners of the competition in their own group, relocating to another, "better" one to maximize their reproductive success (on these directed migrations see [11] ).
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