Favouritism or intrabrood competition? Access to food and the benefits of philopatry for red-cockaded woodpeckers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-338

  Hewett Ragheb, Erin L ^a   Walters, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits of philopatry; Delayed dispersal; Feeding rates; Food allocation; Intrafamilial conflict; Juvenile aggression; Life history strategy; Linear dominance hierarchy; Picoides borealis; Sibling rivalry

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BIRD; BROOD SIZE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; FLEDGING; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LINEARITY; NATAL DISPERSAL; NESTLING; PHILOPATRY; PRIORITIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

PICOIDES BOREALIS;

EID: 79960559456     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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