Demography of male reproductive queues in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-304

  Cockburn, Andrew ^a,b   Osmond, Helen L ^a   Mulder, Raoul A ^a,c   Double, Michael C ^a,d   Green, David J ^a,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dominance; Helper; Malurus; Reproductive queue

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; COURTSHIP; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; MORTALITY; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; MALURUS; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 38849184785     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01335.x     Document Type: Article

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