The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird

The data and accompanying .R scripts were used to test whether having experience as a helper affected a number of different breeding and fitness related parameters in the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) in the paper \"The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird.\" 
DatasetsstatusInfo.xlsx: data collected over a focal individual's lifetime. natalInfo.xlsx: data pertaining to the natal environment of the focal bird. lastSeen.xlsx: data used to calculate when the bird was last seen alive. summerIndex.xlsx: data used to determine whether a particular field period was during a summer or winter season.territoryQuality.xlsx: data used to determine the territory quality of each territory during a particular field period.
Statistical analyses experiencePrep.R: the script used to prepare the data and calculate the necessary model variables prior to running the analyses. experienceAnalyses.R: the script used to run the analyses ..., , , # The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ht76hdrnd):

## Description of the data and file structure

The data and accompanying .R scripts were used to test whether having experience as a helper affected a number of different breeding and fitness related parameters in the Seychelles warbler (*Acrocephalus sechellensis*) in the paper \"The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird.\" Specifically, they were used to test whether helping experience had an effect on:

* Whether or not an individual acquired a dominant breeding position (binary response variable: yes/no)
* The age at which an individual acquired a dominant breeding position (if ever; continuous response variable)
* The length of an individual's dominant breeding tenure (if dominance was acquired; continuous response variable)
* The number of genetic ...