Mean ecological conditions modulate the effects of group living and communal rearing on offspring production and survival

Fecal cortisol levels predict breeding but not survival of females in the short-lived rodent, Octodon degus

(2013) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Environmental stability and the evolution of cooperative breeding in hornbills

(2013) J.-C. T. Gonzalez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Direct fitness of group living mammals varies with breeding strategy, climate and fitness estimates

(2012) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies

(2012) D. Lukas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variable Helper Effects, Ecological Conditions, and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in the Acorn Woodpecker

(2011) Walter D. Koenig et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological drivers of group living in two populations of the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus

(2011) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cooperative Breeding: A Question of Climate?

(2011) Andrew Cockburn et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sociality, glucocorticoids and direct fitness in the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus

(2011) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Burrow limitations and group living in the communally rearing rodent,Octodon degus

(2011) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy

(2011) D. R. Rubenstein   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The influence of group size on natal dispersal in the communally rearing and semifossorial rodent, Octodon degus

(2010) Verónica Quirici et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Effects of More Frequent and Prolonged El Niño Events on Life-History Parameters of the Degu, a Long-Lived and Slow-Reproducing Rodent

(2010) M. ANDREA PREVITALI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2010) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice

(2010) Carsten Schradin et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Seasonal variation in the range areas of the diurnal rodentOctodon degus

(2010) Verónica Quirici et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Early fitness consequences and hormonal correlates of parental behaviour in the social rodent, Octodon degus

(2010) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Communal nesting and discriminative nursing by captive degus, Octodon degus

(2009) Stephanie A. Jesseau et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fitness consequences of group living in the degu Octodon degus, a plural breeder rodent with communal care

(2009) Loren D. Hayes et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Instability Rules Social Groups in the Communal Breeder RodentOctodon degus

(2009) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   ETHOLOGY

Social buffering of the stress response: Diversity, mechanisms, and functions

(2009) Michael B. Hennessy et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Estimates of reproductive success for group-living prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster, in high-density populations

(2008) Nancy G. Solomon et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Group size and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats

(2008) T.H. Clutton-Brock et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Communal nesting is unrelated to burrow availability in the common warthog

(2008) Angela M. White et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions

(2008) Rita Covas et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Resources, not Kinship, Determine Social Patterning in the Territorial Gunnison’s prairie Dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)

(2008) J. L. Verdolin et al.   ETHOLOGY

Reproductive skew and relatedness in social groups of European badgers,Meles meles

(2008) HANNAH L. DUGDALE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY