Kin selection, local competition, and reproductive skew

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2592-2599

  Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Helping; Limited dispersal; Tug of war

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; CONTEST COMPETITION; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; FECUNDITY; KIN SELECTION; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 53149092865     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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