Social organization of cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits: Kinship and spatial dynamics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 820-830

  Hatchwell, B J ^a   Anderson, C ^b   Ross, D J ^a   Fowlie, M K ^c   Blackwell, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aegithalos caudatus; Convex hull peeling; Cooperative breeding; Home range; Kin selection; Minimum convex polygon

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; KINSHIP; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AEGITHALIDAE; AEGITHALOS CAUDATUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0034813383     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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