The predation cost of being a male: Implications for sex-specific rates of ageing

Oikos

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 381-384

  Christe, P ^a   Keller, L ^a   Roulin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 33746347019     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.15130.x     Document Type: Review

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