Routes to breeding in cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 681-686

  Raihani, Nichola J ^a,b,c   Nelson Flower, Martha J ^d   Golabek, Krystyna A ^d   Ridley, Amanda R ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TERRITORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

KALAHARI DESERT;

TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 78649774181     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05211.x     Document Type: Article

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