Demographic consequences of incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1287-1293

  Koenig, Walter D ^a,b   Stanback, Mark T ^a,c   Haydock, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hastings Reservation   (United States)

^c DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS; PICIFORMES;

EID: 0032988316     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1093     Document Type: Article

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