Food availability affects strength of seasonal territorial behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 613-619

  Golabek, K A ^a   Ridley, A R ^b   Radford, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Communication; Ecological constraint; Food limitation; Intergroup interaction; Pied babbler; Territoriality; Turdoides bicolor

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOMASS; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; TERRITORY;

AVES; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 84857060513     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.034     Document Type: Article

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