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

BACKGROUND: 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 extremely skewed. In such groups resources are not shared eq...

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Autores principales: Poethke, Hans J, Liebig, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2329606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-8-2