The relationship between tooth wear, habitat quality and late-life reproduction in a wild red deer population

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 402-412

  Nussey, Daniel H ^a   Metherell, Bonnie ^a   Moyes, Kelly ^b,c   Donald, Alison ^a   Guinness, Fiona E ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus; Habitat quality; Local resource competition; Molar tooth wear; Senescence

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEER; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOOTH; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TOOTH DISEASE;

AGING; ANIMALS; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MOLAR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TOOTH ATTRITION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; RUM; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 33846992700     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01212.x     Document Type: Article

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