A commitment model of reproductive inhibition in cooperatively breeding groups

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 585-591

  Hamilton, Ian M ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Credibility; Imperfect information; Reproductive skew; Reproductive suppression

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INHIBITION; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 3042739775     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh047     Document Type: Article

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