Helper effects on variance components of fitness in the cooperatively breeding red-cockaded woodpecker

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 608-616

  Reed, J Michael ^a,b   Walters, Jeffrey R ^a,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PICOIDES BOREALIS;

EID: 0030469725     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088981     Document Type: Article

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