Phylogenetic and ecological aspects of cooperative breeding in the bee-eaters (Aves Meropidae)
Cooperative breeding (CB) is found in a wide diversity of avian lineages and can be explained at several levels of analysis. After a brief introduction to the theory explaining CB, I take an historical approach to examine CB evolution in the bee-eaters (Family Meropidae). Parsimony analyses of pluma...
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Ann Arbor Michigan
UMI Company
[1997]
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