Should I stay or should I go? Fitness costs and benefits of prolonged parent–offspring and sibling–sibling associations in an Arctic-nesting goose population - Weegman, Mitch D.; Bearhop, Stuart; Hilton, Geoff M.; Walsh, Alyn J.; Weegman, Kaitlin M.; Hodgson, David J.; Fox, Anthony David (Oecologia, 2016)
Keywords: Analysis; Animals; Anser albifrons; Anser albifrons flavirostris; Aquatic birds; Arctic region; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Breeding; Cost benefit analysis; Domestic relations; Ecology; Economic aspects; extended families; family relations; Geese; Greenland; herbivores; Hydrology/Water Resources; Life Sciences; Nesting; Offspring; Parents; Plant Sciences; POPULATION ECOLOGY – ORIGINAL RESEARCH; Population theory; probability; progeny; Siblings; Survival; Arctic region; Greenland; Breeding probability; Cost–benefit model; Greenland white-fronted goose; Bayesian multistate model; Long-term family relationship; Fitness