Zink, Andrew - San Francisco State University

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The ecology and evolution of animal social behavior

研究领域

As a behavioral ecologist I am interested in evolutionary and ecological processes that generate the broad diversity of animal behavior. My research involves the evolution of social behavior with a specific focus on the evolution of parental care and communal breeding. Many animals decrease the costs of parental care by raising their offspring with other parents in a communal group. However individual parents within these groups often experience large asymmetries in the number of offspring that they produce and the amount of care that they provide. My work attempts to understand how these asymmetries can be maintained within social groups and how group members act to resolve these conflicts over reproduction and parental care. My general approach is 1) to develop mathematical models that are applicable to a broad range of social animals and 2) to test the predictions of these (and other) models using laboratory and field experiments on social animals.

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Prado-Irwin, S*, A. Bird*, A.G. Zink, V.T. Vredenburg. 2017. Intraspecific variation in the skin-associated microbiome Barker, J., J. Bronstein, M. Friesen, E. Jones, H.K. Reeve, A.G. Zink, M. Frederickson. 2017. Synthesizing perspectives Zink, A.G. and B.E. Lyon. 2016. Evolution of conspecific brood parastisim versus cooperative breeding as alternative Sette, C.M.*, V.T. Vredenburg, and A.G. Zink. 2015. Reconstructing historical and contemporary disease dynamics: a case Zink, A.G. 2015. Kin selection and the evolution of mutualisms between species. Ethology 121:823-830. Zink, A.G. and Z-H He. 2015. Botanical brilliance: are plants decision-makers or elaborate fakers? Science Munoz, N.E.* and A.G. Zink. 2012. Asymmetric forceps increase fighting success among males of similar size in the Miller, J.S.* and A.G. Zink. 2012. Parental care trade-offs and the role of filial cannibalism in the maritime earwig, Miller, J.S.*, L. Rudolph*, and A.G. Zink. 2011. Maternal nest defense reduces egg cannibalism by conspecific females in Abbot, P. et al. (135 authors) and A.G. Zink. 2011. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471:E1-4. Buston, P. and A.G. Zink. 2009. Reproductive skew and the evolution of conflict resolution: a synthesis of transactional Zink, A.G. and J.A. Rosenheim. 2008. Stage-specific predation on Lygus hesperus affects its population stage- Loeb, M.L.G. and A.G. Zink. 2006. Fitness conflicts and the costs of sociality in communal egg layers: a theoretical Rosenheim, J.A., K. Steinmann, G. Langellotto, and A.G. Zink. 2006. Estimating the impact of Lygus hesperus on Zink, A.G. 2005. Dynamics of brood desertion among communally breeding females in the treehopper Publilia Zink, A.G. and H.K. Reeve. 2005. Predicting the temporal dynamics of reproductive skew and group membership in Zink, A.G. and J.A. Rosenheim. 2005. Stage-dependent feeding behavior by western tarnished plant bugs influences Zink, A.G. and J.A. Rosenheim. 2004. State-dependent sampling bias in insects: implications for monitoring western Zink, A.G. 2003. Quantifying the costs and benefits of parental care in female treehoppers. Behavioral Ecology Zink, A.G. 2003. Intraspecific brood parasitism as a conditional reproductive tactic in the treehopper Publilia Zink, A.G. 2001. The optimal degree of parental care asymmetry among communal breeders. Animal Behaviour Zink, A.G. 2000. The evolution of intraspecific brood parasitism in birds and insects. The American Naturalist of a terrestrial salamander. Microbial Ecology (in press) on the evolution of cooperation within and between species. Evolution 71:814-825. reproductive tactics. American Naturalist 187:35-47. study using the California slender salamander. Biological Conservation 192:20-29. 347:724-725. maritime earwig. Ethology 118:943-954 (cover article). Anisolabis maritima. Animal Behaviour 83:1387-1394. the maritime earwig Anisolabis maritima. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:1873-1879. and tug-of-war models. Behavioral Ecology 20: 672-684 (cover article). structure. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 126: 61-66. model and empirical tests. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 889-899. cotton: the insect, plant, and human observer as sources of variability. Environmental Entomology 35: 1141-1153. concava. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58: 466-473. communal breeders. Behavioral Ecology 16: 880-888. flower bud abscission in cotton plants. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 117: 235-242. tarnished plant bugs. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 113: 117-123. 14: 687-693 concava. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54: 406-415. 61: 439-446. 155: 395-405