Adaptive responses and disruptive effects: How major wildfire influences kinship-based social interactions in a forest marsupial

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 673-684

  Banks, Sam C ^a   Blyton, Michaela D J ^a   Blair, David ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cooperation; disturbance; fire; genetic structure; kin selection; resource competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MARSUPIALIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 84855867557     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05282.x     Document Type: Article

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