Best squirrels trade a long life for an early reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2369-2374

  Descamps, Sébastien ^a,b   Boutin, Stan ^c   Berteaux, Dominique ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lifetime reproductive success; Phenotypic quality; Survival cost of reproduction; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOOD; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPAN; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SQUIRREL; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 33748658804     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3588     Document Type: Article

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