The cost of being alone: The fate of floaters in a population of cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 389-392

  Ridley, Amanda R ^a   Raihani, Nichola J ^b   Nelson Flower, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY;

TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 64549121190     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2008.0908-8857.04479.x.     Document Type: Article

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