Trade-off between current reproductive effort and delay to next reproduction in the leatherback sea turtle

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 564-574

  Rivalan, Philippe ^a,c   Prévot Julliard, Anne Caroline ^a   Choquet, Remi ^b   Pradel, Roger ^b   Jacquemin, Bertrand ^a   Girondot, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capture recapture models; Dermochelys coriacea; Multistate model; Reproductive skipping; Reproductive trade off

Indexed keywords

MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; TRADE-OFF; TURTLE;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 26444524522     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0159-4     Document Type: Article

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