Fitness consequences of sociality in prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster: Influence of group size and composition

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 645-654

  McGuire, Betty ^a   Getz, Lowell L ^a   Oli, Madan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GROUP SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 0036417258     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3094     Document Type: Article

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