The absence of sex-biased dispersal in the cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babbler

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Blackmore, Caroline J ^a   Peakall, Rod ^b   Heinsohn, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dispersal behaviour; Habitat fragmentation; Inbreeding; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FLEDGING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INBREEDING; NATAL DISPERSAL; PASSERINE; PHILOPATRY; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

AVES; POMATOSTOMUS TEMPORALIS; TIMALIIDAE;

EID: 78650011819     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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