Population regulation in group-living birds: Predictive models of the Seychelles warbler

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 588-598

  Ridley, Jo ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^b   Sutherland, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; HABITAT SELECTION; KIN SELECTION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION REGULATION;

SEYCHELLES;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; AVES;

EID: 0038721317     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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