Male greater sac-winged bats gain direct fitness benefits when roosting in multimale colonies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-606

  Nagy, Martina ^a,b   Knörnschild, Mirjam ^c   Voigt, Christian C ^d   Mayer, Frieder ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

female biased dispersal; lifetime breeding success; male tenure; Saccopteryx bilineata; social organization

Indexed keywords

BAT; COLONY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; FITNESS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; IMMIGRATION; MALE; POLYGAMY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; TERRITORY;

MAMMALIA; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA;

EID: 84859504224     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars003     Document Type: Article

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