Publications

unfavourable environment limits social conflict in yuhina brunneiceps.	identifying the factors that modulate cooperative and competitive behaviours is the key to understanding social evolution. however, how ecological factors affect social conflict and their fitness consequences remain relatively unexplored. here, using both a game-theoretical model and empirical data, we show that taiwan yuhinas (yuhina brunneiceps)--a joint-nesting species in which group members are unrelated--employ more cooperative strategies in unfavourable environmental conditions. fighting d ...	2012	22673912
group provisioning limits sharing conflict among nestlings in joint-nesting taiwan yuhinas.	offspring often compete over limited available resources. such sibling competition may be detrimental to parents both because it entails wasted expenditure and because it allows stronger offspring to obtain a disproportionate share of resources. we studied nestling conflict over food and its resolution in a joint-nesting species of bird, the taiwan yuhina (yuhina brunneiceps). we show that adult yuhinas coordinate their feeding visits, and that this coordination limits competition among nestling ...	2010	20053663