Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 10816-10822

  Rubenstein, Dustin R ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic uncertainty; Habitat heterogeneity; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERTILITY; FITNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

LAMPROTORNIS SUPERBUS; STURNIDAE;

EID: 79960638735     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100303108     Document Type: Article

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