Cooperative Breeding

12/9/02


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Table of Contents

Cooperative Breeding

Diversity

Consequences

Why not disperse?

Habitat saturation

Mate or nest limitation

Why provide help?

Why provide help?

Why provide help?

Why provide help?

Is the benefit of helping independent of territory quality?

Helpers are usually related

Bee-eaters help closest relatives

Helping increases inclusive fitness in pied kingfishers

Conflicts over reproduction

Reproductive skew theory

Reproductive skew predictions

Reproductive skew evidence: paper wasps

Author: Jerry Wilkinson

Email: gw10@umail.umd.edu

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