Helpers but not breeders adjust provisioning effort to year-round territory resource availability in carrion crows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 943-949

  Canestrari, Daniela ^a   Chiarati, Elisa ^b   Marcos, José M ^b   Ekman, Jan ^c   Baglione, Vittorio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

carrion crow; chick care; cooperative breeding; Corvus corone; food supplementation; GLMM; life history; territory quality

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BROOD REARING; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LABOR DIVISION; PASSERINE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TERRITORY;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE;

EID: 49149099697     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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