Risk-sensitive foraging and the evolution of cooperative breeding and reproductive skew

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Group formation and food sharing in animals may reduce variance in resource supply to breeding individuals. For some species it has thus been interpreted as a mechanism of risk avoidance. However, in many groups reproduction is extre...

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Main Authors: Liebig Jürgen, Poethke Hans J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-03-01
Series:BMC Ecology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/8/2