Risk-sensitive foraging and the evolution of cooperative breeding and reproductive skew

BMC Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Poethke, Hans J ^a   Liebig, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 42449150885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-8-2     Document Type: Article

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