Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: Bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1075-1085

  Wey, Tina W ^a,c   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Agonism; Animal social networks; Performance measures; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; PHILYPNODON;

EID: 84862492201     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1358-8     Document Type: Article

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