Population Resilience Under Environmental Deterioration in Socially Monogamous Systems with Mutual Mate Choice
Neelam Porwal, Jonathan M. Parrett, Franky Rogers…·Robert J. Knell
This study shows that extra-pair paternity (EPP) can enhance population resilience under environmental stress in socially monogamous systems when females mate with higher-quality males, but this benefit diminishes in small populations.