Within-brood competition and the optimal partitioning of parental investment

被引：26

作者：

Bonabeau, E ^{[1
]}

Deneubourg, JL

Theraulaz, G

机构：

[1] Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA

[2] Free Univ Brussels, Unit Theoret Behav Ecol, Serv Chim Phys, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[3] Univ Toulouse 3, Lab Ethol & Psychol Anim, CNRS UMR 5550, F-31062 Toulouse, France

来源：

AMERICAN NATURALIST | 1998年 / 152卷 / 03期

关键词：

growth; parental investment; sibling competition; fitness;

D O I：

10.1086/286179

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

In this article, we introduce a simple within-brood competitive growth model that maximizes parental fitness in unpredictable food conditions in species that exhibit parental care, progressive provisioning, and an initial brood overproduction. We argue that competition between siblings may provide a proximate mechanism for parents to adjust the number of surviving offspring or the social organization of the group in social species to food conditions.

引用

页码：419 / 427

页数：9

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