| Title |
Helpers at the Nest Improve Late-Life Offspring Performance: Evidence from a Long-Term Study and a Cross-Foster Experiment
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0033167 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lyanne Brouwer, David S. Richardson, Jan Komdeur |
| Abstract |
Conditions during an individual's rearing period can have far reaching consequences for its survival and reproduction later in life. Conditions typically vary due to variation in parental quality and/or the environment, but in cooperative breeders the presence of helpers adds an important component to this. Determining the causal effect of helpers on offspring fitness is difficult, since high-quality breeders or territories are likely to produce high-quality offspring, but are also more likely to have helpers because of past reproductive success. This problem is best resolved by comparing the effect of both helping and non-helping subordinates on offspring fitness, however species in which both type of subordinates commonly occur are rare. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 24% |
| Researcher | 17 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 19 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 50 | 57% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 1% |
| Psychology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 22 | 25% |