Does cooperation increase helpers' later success as breeders? A test of the skills hypothesis in the cooperatively displaying lance-tailed manakin

Age-related provisioning behaviour in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: testing the skills and the pay-to-stay hypotheses

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Sexually extravagant males age more rapidly

(2011) Brian T. Preston et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

AD Model Builder: using automatic differentiation for statistical inference of highly parameterized complex nonlinear models

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Variation in annual and lifetime reproductive success of lance-tailed manakins: alpha experience mitigates effects of senescence on siring success

(2011) E. H. DuVal   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

No direct fitness benefits of helping in a cooperative breeder despite higher survival of helpers

(2010) J. Meade et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The past, present and future of reproductive skew theory and experiments

(2010) Peter Nonacs et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fast stable restricted maximum likelihood and marginal likelihood estimation of semiparametric generalized linear models

(2010) Simon N. Wood   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

Reproductive improvement and senescence in a long-lived bird

(2010) Maren Rebke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Consequences of recruitment decisions and heterogeneity on age-specific breeding success in a long-lived seabird

(2009) Lise M. Aubry et al.   ECOLOGY

Why de young birds reproduce less well?

(2008) Eberhard Curio   IBIS

Sexual selection in a lekking bird: the relative opportunity for selection by female choice and male competition

(2008) E. H DuVal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES