Replacing sources with sinks: when do populations go down the drain? Restor

Abstract We investigate the scenario in which some amount of higher quality habitat is destroyed and is then replaced by some undetermined amount of lower quality habitat. We examined how much low-quality habitat would need to be created to maintain the equilibrium population abundance in the entire geographic area. Using a source-sink model, we find that (1) the number of hectares of created habitat per hectare of destroyed habitat must equal the ratio of the high-quality habitat's productivity to the low-quality habitat's productivity, however, (2) if the created habitat is a sink, then there is a threshold fraction of destroyed high-quality habitat below which the initial population abundance cannot be maintained through the creation of habitat. We illustrate these results using data on Redwinged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) in two different regions where high-quality habitat is being replaced by or converted into lower quality habitat

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Contains table of contents on Section 2, an introduction, reports on eleven research projects and a list of publications.National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00117National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00270National Institutes of Health Contract 2 P01 DC00361National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00100National Institutes of Health Contract 7 R29 DC00428National Institutes of Health Grant 2 R01 DC00126U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Grant AFOSR 90-0200U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1935National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R29 DC00625U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-91-J-1454U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-181

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Contains table of contents for Section 2, an introduction and reports on twelve research projects.National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00117National Institutes of Health Contract 2 P01 DC00361National Institutes of Health Grant 5 R01 DC00126National Institutes of Health Grant R01-DC00270U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Contract AFOSR-90-0200National Institutes of Health Grant R29-DC00625U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-88-K-0604U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-91-J-1454U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-1814U.S. Navy - Naval Training Systems Center Contract N61339-93-M-1213U.S. Navy - Naval Training Systems Center Contract N61339-93-C-0055U.S. Navy - Naval Training Systems Center Contract N61339-93-C-0083U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-4005U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-93-1-119

On the Role of Male Competition in Speciation: A Review and Research Agenda

Support for the role of sexual selection in speciation has grown over the last 30 years. Work in this area, however, has largely focused on a single dominant question: when and how do divergent male sexual signals and corresponding female preferences lead to reproductive isolation? The field has not given adequate attention to the role that male competition, Darwin’s second mechanism of sexual selection, might also play in speciation. In this review, we summarize recent work that shows precopulatory male competition can initiate speciation in sympatry, drive divergence of competitive phenotypes in allopatry, and strengthen reproductive barriers between competitive types during secondary contact. The manner by which male competition contributes to divergence in allopatry is a poorly understood yet compelling area of research; similar to female choice, male competition may be more likely to lead to speciation when working in concert with divergent ecology, and allopatry sets the stage for divergence among environments with reduced gene flow. To encourage future research in this area, we place potential mechanisms for speciation by male competition into existing speciation frameworks and propose a theoretical and empirical research agenda to reveal how male competition contributes to the accumulation of reproductive isolation. Our current understanding of when and how divergence in competitive phenotypes leads to reproductive isolation is limited, and theoretical work may be particularly well-suited to reveal when divergence by male competition is fastest and most likely