Do helpers really help? Provisioning biomass and prey type effects on nestling growth in the cooperative bell miner

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 727-735

  te Marvelde, Luc ^a,b   McDonald, Paul G ^c   Kazem, Anahita J N ^d   Wright, Jonathan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

bell miner; digestive development; group augmentation; helping at the nest; kin selection; Manorina melanophrys; nestling growth

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY MASS; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DIGESTION; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; FOOD PROVISIONING; KIN SELECTION; LOUSE; NESTLING; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; PROTEIN; SECRETION; SUGAR;

ARTHROPODA; HEMIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MANORINA MELANOPHRYS; PSYLLIDAE;

EID: 59849091221     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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