How helpers help: Disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 427-429

  Wright, Jonathan ^a   Russell, Andrew F ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 42149088393     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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