Correlations between age, phenotype, and individual contribution to population growth in common terns

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2496-2504

  Ezard, Thomas H G ^a   Becker, Peter H ^b   Coulson, Tim ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related improvement; Annual realized fitness; Common tern; Individual contributions to population growth; Individual quality; Phenology; Phenotypic traits; Selection gradient; Sterna hirundo; Timing of breeding

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ARRIVAL DATE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FITNESS; LAYING DATE; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEABIRD;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 38449091346     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2020.1     Document Type: Article

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