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Project

Can cooperative breeding buffer the impacts of habitat fragmentation?

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F005316

Duration

01 October 2016 → 30 September 2020

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Luc Lens

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Animal biology

Keywords

cooperative breeding habitat fragmentation Phyllastrephus placidus

Project description

In cooperative breeding species some individuals forego to breed independently and help raising offspring that are not their own. Whether and how facultative cooperative breeders may adaptively respond to population fragmentation remains poorly understood. We will investigate this question in an afro-tropical bird, Phyllastrephus placidus, in three different fragmented forest archipelagos located within the Eastern Arc Mountains biodiversity hotspot.

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