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Manipulating carer number versus brood size: complementary but not equivalent ways of quantifying carer effects on offspring

Experiments designed to quantify the effects of increasing numbers of carers on levels of offspring care are rare in cooperative breeding systems, where offspring are reared by individuals additional to the breeding pair. This paucity might stem from disagreement over the most appropriate manipulati...

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Autores principales: Liebl, A.L., Browning, L.E., Russell, A.F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27418754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw038