Sexual competition explains patterns of individual investment in territorial aggression in western bluebird winter groups

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 763-770

  Kleiber, Danika ^a   Kyle, Keiller ^a   Rockwell, Sarah M ^a   Dickinson, Janis L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive variation; group defence; individual investment; kin selection; sexual competition; Sialia mexicana; western bluebird; winter territorial defence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; CAPTIVITY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSPECIFIC; GROUP SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KIN SELECTION; PAIR BOND; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; HUMULUS; SIALIA MEXICANA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 34247866235     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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