Does coloniality improve foraging efficiency and nestling provisioning? A field experiment in the wild Zebra Finch

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-335

  Mariette, Mylene M ^a,c   Griffith, Simon C ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Colony; Crop seed count; Density dependent cost; Food finding; Foraging rate; Nesting density; Parental care; Phenotype; Producer scrounger; Provisioning; Reproductive investment; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

COLONY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; MONITORING SYSTEM; NEST SITE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NESTLING; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84876104236     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0572.1     Document Type: Article

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