Costly reproductive competition between females in a monogamous cooperatively breeding bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1762, 2013, Pages

  Nelson Flower, Martha J ^a   Hockey, Philip A R ^a   O'Ryan, Colleen ^a   English, Sinead ^b   Thompson, Alex M ^a   Bradley, Katharine ^a   Rose, Rebecca ^a   Ridley, Amanda R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Female competition; Reproductive conflict; Reproductive skew; Southern pied babbler; Turdoides bicolor

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; INCUBATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AFRICA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84891505733     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0728     Document Type: Article

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