Tial of individuals (half saturation constant, ), and the standard deviation of individual foraging success () on the relative reproductive success of groups (= 2) without reproductive skew (a, = 0.5; c, = 0.2) and with reproductive skew (b, = 0.5; d, = 0.2). Integration of equations 3, 6 and 7 for mean foraging success = 1.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Risk-sensitive foraging and the evolution of cooperative breeding and reproductive skew"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/8/2</p><p>BMC Ecology 2008;8():2-2.</p><p>Published online 18 Mar 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2329606.</p><p></p
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Long-term environmental stochasticity is known to affect the adaptive evolution of life history trai...
The policy shows the optimal behaviour for an individual when its own energetic reserve values and t...
Evolutionary success requires both production (acquisition of food, protection and warmth) and repro...
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Reproductive skew theory has become a popular way to phrase problems and test hypotheses of social e...
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Background: Some recent findings in social spiders appear to be at odds with risk-sensitive foraging...
Reproductive skew theory seeks to explain how reproduction is divided among group members in animal ...