Helpers increase long-term but not short-term productivity in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits

By B. Hatchwell, Andrew F. Russell, A. MacColl, D. J. Ross, M. Fowlie, A. McGowan. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. B. Hatchwell
2. A. MacColl
3. Eva Skubic
4. B. Taborsky
5. R. Bruintjes

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. B. Hatchwell
2. A. MacColl
3. Eva Skubic
4. B. Taborsky
5. R. Bruintjes

Citations in the corpus

• Mothers adjust egg size to helper number in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2007, background): “2005; Woxvold and Magrath 2005) and longterm effects on offspring survival (Hatchwell et al. 2004), and they can reduce the workload of breeders (Hatchwell and Russell 1996; Cockburn 1998; Balshine et al.”
• Determinants of lifetime fitness in a cooperative breeder, the long‐tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus (2004, background): “This contradicts directly the hypothesis that sex ratio bias among helpers results from individuals of the sex with higher variance in success helping in order to attain inclusive fitness (Koenig et al. 1983), as in long-tailed tits most helpers are male (Hatchwell et al. 2004).”