1 | Mating System | | _____ | social associations and presumed mating behavior of individuals based on those associations |
2 | Sexual Conflict | | _____ | competition in which individuals compete indirectly with each other to find and secure copulations with multiple mates |
3 | Female Defense Polygyny | | _____ | predicts the occurrence of polygyny based on the amount of resources available to females in male territories |
4 | Resource Defense Polygyny | | _____ | actual number of sexual partners of each sex in a social mating system that contribute to a set of offspring |
5 | Male Dominance Polygyny | | _____ | a single male monopolizes and mates with two or more females |
6 | Territorial Cooperation Hypothesis | | _____ | selection favors males that mate with and guard one female over one or more reproductive cycles |
7 | Mate Guarding Hypothesis | | _____ | only a few males mate with most females |
8 | Polygyny Threshold Model | | _____ | two individuals, one of each sex, can better defend a critical resource; this favors pair formation and shared defenses |
9 | Hotspot Hypothesis | | _____ | copulations of a pair-bonded individual with a third individual outside the pair bond |
10 | Hotshot Hypothesis | | _____ | low-ranking males can benefit by aggregating around high-ranking males because females are more likely to visit attractive males |
11 | Scramble Competition | | _____ | all males can benefit by aggregating in a location where they are likely to encounter many females |
12 | Social Mating System | | _____ | description of the social associations and number of sexual partners an individual has during one breeding season |
13 | Genetic Mating System | | _____ | a male defends resources and mates with multiple females attracted to the resources |
14 | Extra-pair Copulations | | _____ | differential selection on males and females to maximize their fitness |
15 | Genetic Quality Hypothesis | | _____ | females that engage in multi-male mating can improve the fitness of their offspring via genetic mechanisms |