Getting fat or getting help? How female mammals cope with energetic constraints on reproduction

Climate and the distribution of cooperative breeding in mammals

(2017) Dieter Lukas et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Variable ecological conditions promote male helping by changing banded mongoose group composition

(2016) Harry H. Marshall et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Being fat and smart: A comparative analysis of the fat-brain trade-off in mammals

(2016) Sandra A. Heldstab et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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(2016) Hannah E. R. West et al.   Nature Communications

Paying the energetic costs of reproduction: reliance on postpartum foraging and stored reserves

(2015) Heiko G. Rödel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success

(2015) Isabella Capellini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

No apparent benefits of allonursing for recipient offspring and mothers in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

(2015) Kirsty J. MacLeod et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Brief Communication: Seasonality of diet composition is related to brain size in New World Monkeys

(2014) Janneke T. van Woerden et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Effects of Limb Length, Body Mass, Gender, Gravidity, and Elevation on Escape Speed in the Lizard Psammodromus algirus

(2014) Francisco J. Zamora-Camacho et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Determinants of Reproductive Performance Among Female Gray-Cheeked Mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) in Kibale National Park, Uganda

(2014) Małgorzata E. Arlet et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Arboreal adaptations of body fat in wild toque macaques (Macaca sinica) and the evolution of adiposity in primates

(2013) Wolfgang P. J. Dittus   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Factors predicting the frequency, likelihood and duration of allonursing in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

(2013) K.J. MacLeod et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Food abundance affects energy intake and reproduction in frugivorous female Assamese macaques

(2013) Marlies Heesen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Strategic reduction of help before dispersal in a cooperative breeder

(2013) M. Zottl et al.   Biology Letters

Female body condition affects foetal growth in a capital breeding mysticete

(2013) Fredrik Christiansen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reproductive success depends on the quality of helpers in the endangered, cooperative El Oro parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi)

(2013) Nadine Klauke et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Maternal Effects in Relation to Helper Presence in the Cooperatively Breeding Sociable Weaver

(2013) Matthieu Paquet et al.   PLoS One

The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals

(2013) D. Lukas et al.   SCIENCE

Food availability shapes patterns of helping effort in a cooperative mongoose

(2012) Hazel J. Nichols et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Allomaternal care, life history and brain size evolution in mammals

(2012) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Life histories and the evolution of cooperative breeding in mammals

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

LARGE BRAINS BUFFER ENERGETIC EFFECTS OF SEASONAL HABITATS IN CATARRHINE PRIMATES

(2011) Janneke T. van Woerden et al.   EVOLUTION

Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

(2011) C. E. GRUEBER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Strategic promiscuity helps avoid inbreeding at multiple levels in a cooperative breeder where both sexes are philopatric

(2011) LYANNE BROUWER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of Seasonality on Brain Size Evolution: Evidence from Strepsirrhine Primates

(2010) Janneke T. van Woerden et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons

(2010) Kenneth P. Burnham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Allo-suckling in the South American fur seal(Arctocephalus australis)in Isla de Lobos, Uruguay: cost or benefit of living in a group?

(2010) V. Franco-Trecu et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Allonursing in Captive Guanacos,Lama guanicoe: Milk Theft or Misdirected Parental Care?

(2009) Beatriz Zapata et al.   ETHOLOGY

Do mechanical gait parameters explain the higher metabolic cost of walking in obese adolescents?

(2009) Nicolas Peyrot et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Critical periods of susceptibility to short-term energy challenge during pregnancy: Impact on fertility and offspring development

(2009) Alexander S. Kauffman et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Load-lightening in cooperatively breeding birds and the cost of reproduction

(2008) HUMPHREY Q.P. CRICK   IBIS

Allonursing in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus nigritus): Milk or Pacifier?

(2007) M. Celia Baldovino et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

The physiological costs of reproduction in small mammals

(2007) J. R Speakman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES