Costs of group size: Lower developmental and reproductive rates in larger groups of leaf monkeys

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1186-1191

  Borries, Carola ^a   Larney, Eileen ^a   Lu, Amy ^a   Ossi, Kerry ^a   Koenig, Andreas ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant development; Infant mortality; Interbirth interval; Reproductive costs; Scramble competition; Trachypithecus phayrei

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; INFANT MORTALITY; MAMMAL; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; TRACHYPITHECUS; TRACHYPITHECUS PHAYREI;

EID: 56449087783     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn088     Document Type: Article

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