Evolutionary conservation advice for despotic populations: Habitat heterogeneity favours conflict and reduces productivity in Seychelles magpie robins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3477-3482

  López Sepulcre, Andrés ^a,b,c   Kokko, Hanna ^b,d   Norris, Ken ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary conservation; Habitat selection; Interference; Sociality; Territorial conflict

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; HOT SPOT; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; PASSERINE; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIOBIOLOGY; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

COPSYCHUS SECHELLARUM;

EID: 78149234705     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0819     Document Type: Article

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