Parental provisioning behaviour plays a key role in linking personality with reproductive success

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1764, 2013, Pages

  Mutzel, A ^a   Dingemanse, N J ^a,b   Araya Ajoy, Y G ^a   Kempenaers, B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Behavioural syndrome; Exploration; Parental care; Path model; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; FITNESS; NESTLING; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84892981605     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1019     Document Type: Article

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