Helping effort in a dominance hierarchy

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 708-715

  Cant, Michael A ^a   Field, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Helpers; Inheritance; Queueing; Social queue

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 25444526071     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari051     Document Type: Article

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