—Avian reproduction in a Mediterranean context: contributions of ornithological research in Spain. Aims: To review the studies of avian breeding biology conducted by Spanish researchers in the last decades, emphasizing the Mediterranean aspects of avian reproduction. The main topics covered are life history evolution, sexual selection and host-parasite interactions, including brood parasitism. ...

We propose a computational model of mating strategies for controlled animal breeding programs. A mating strategy in a controlled breeding program is a heuristic with some optimization criteria as a goal. Thus, it is appropriate to use the computational tools available for analysis of optimization heuristics. In this paper, we propose the first discrete model of the controlled animal breeding pr...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...