Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-78

  Jetz, Walter ^a   Rubenstein, Dustin R ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79151485121     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.075     Document Type: Article

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