Removal of older males increases extra-pair siring success of yearling males

• Emmi Schlicht,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

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• Carol Gilsenan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

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• Peter Santema,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Agnes Türk,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

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• Andrea Wittenzellner,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

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• Bart Kempenaers

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bart.kempenaers@bi.mpg.de

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Department of Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7505-5458

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