Power struggles, dominance testing, and reproductive skew

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 406-417

  Cant, Michael A ^a   Johnstone, Rufus A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cooperative breeding; Dominance interactions; Reproductive skew; Sociality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SKEWNESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033999527     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303328     Document Type: Article

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