Kin competition within groups: The offspring depreciation hypothesis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1509, 2002, Pages 2559-2564

  Ridley, J ^a   Sutherland, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Density dependence; Habitat selection; Kin selection; Offspring quality; Social queuing

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN SELECTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AVES;

EID: 0037160235     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2208     Document Type: Article

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