Multistate estimates of survival and movement in relation to colony size in the sociable weaver

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 463-471

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Covas, Rita ^b,d   Anderson, Mark D ^c   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Dept Agric Land Reform E ^*  (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coloniality; Dispersal; Life history; Philetairus socius; Sociable weaver; Social behavior; Survival

Indexed keywords

COLONY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROUP SIZE; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PHILETAIRUS SOCIUS; PHILETARIUS SOCIUS; PLOCEINAE;

EID: 0041425277     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arg034     Document Type: Article

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