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Article Excerpt
INTEGRATION OF ECOLOGY AND ENDOCRINOLOGY IN AVIAN REPRODUCTION: A NEW SYNTHESIS. By John C. Wingfield, Marcel E. Visser, and Tony D. Williams, Editors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 363: 1579-1723. ISBN 0-962-8436.--This theme issue brings together a dozen synthesis papers that emerged from three separate workshops conducted by the international E-BIRD network, a working group of behavioral endocrinologists and evolutionary ecologists interested in the reproductive behavior of birds. This fascinating set of papers paints a picture of two separate research paradigms, the forces that have kept them apart, and the research benefits of bringing them together. These days it is common to hear calls for multi- and interdisciplinary research, and the papers in this volume illustrate why.
The papers in this collection might be viewed as having a rather narrow focus--the reproductive endocrinology of birds--but the introductory paper by the editors nicely spells out the value of this focus. Why birds rather than other taxa? Because birds are highly visible and well-known members of...
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