Female-biased helping in a cooperatively breeding bird: Female benefits or male costs?

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 534-542

  Williams, Dean A ^a,b   Hale, Amanda M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISPERSAL; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE; PUNTARENAS;

AVES; PSILORHINUS MORIO;

EID: 34547478266     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01353.x     Document Type: Article

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