Selected approaches to using individual variation for understanding mammalian, life-history evolution

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-319

  Holmes, Donna J ^a   Sherry, Diana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual variation; Life history evolution; Mammals

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031544723     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382884     Document Type: Review

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