Monogamy when there is potential for polygyny: Tests of multiple hypotheses in a group-living fish

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 353-361

  Wong, Marian Y L ^a   Munday, Philip L ^a   Buston, Peter M ^b   Jones, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Female competition; Food limitation; Monogamy; Paternal care; Reproductive suppression; Social group

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BREEDING SITE; CORAL; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MATURATION; MONOGAMY; NEST SITE; PATERNAL CARE; PERCIFORM; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANTHOZOA; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GOBIIDAE; PARAGOBIODON XANTHOSOMUS;

EID: 43049118022     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm141     Document Type: Article

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