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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/8/2 |