Towards a unified theory of cooperative breeding: The role of ecology and life history re-examined

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1460, 2000, Pages 2411-2418

  Pen, I ^a   Weissing, F J ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Fitness; Hamilton's rule; Helping; Relatedness; Reproductive value

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034619804     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1299     Document Type: Article

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