Patterns of recruitment, relatedness and cooperative breeding in two populations of long-tailed tits

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 843-849

  Sharp, Stuart P ^a   Simeoni, Michelle ^a   McGowan, Andrew ^a   Nam, Ki Baek ^a,b   Hatchwell, Ben J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aegithalos caudatus; Cooperative breeding; Dispersal; Helping; Kinship; Long tailed tit; Recruitment; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; PHILOPATRY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATEDNESS; SONGBIRD;

AEGITHALIDAE; AEGITHALOS CAUDATUS;

EID: 79952735589     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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