Intrabrood Dominance Hierarchies in Juvenile Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers: The Role of Early Social Environment On Post-Fledging Survival and Natal Dispersal
Competition among individuals over shared resources reveals asymmetries in quality resulting in the formation of dominance hierarchies. These hierarchies act as a mechanism for social selection by partitioning resources among group-living animals. The following chapters describe my dissertation rese...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77209 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09152011-144311/ |