Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 664-673

  Jones, Owen R ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^c   Alho, Jussi S ^d   Armitage, Kenneth B ^e   Becker, Peter H ^f   Bize, Pierre ^g   Brommer, Jon ^d   Charmantier, Anne ^h,i   Charpentier, Marie ^i,j   Clutton Brock, Tim ^k   Dobson, F Stephen ^l   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^m   Gustafsson, Lars ⁿ   Jensen, Henrik ^o   Jones, Carl G ^p   Lillandt, Bo Göran ^d   McCleery, Robin ^h   Merilä, Juha ^d   Neuhaus, Peter ^q   Nicoll, Malcolm A C ^r   Norris, Ken ^r   Oli, Madan K ^s   Pemberton, Josephine ^t   Pietiäinen, Hannu ^d   Ringsby, Thor Harald ^o   Roulin, Alexandre ^u   Saether, Bernt Erik ^o   Setchell, Joanna M ^j,k   Sheldon, Ben C ^h   Thompson, Paul M ^v   Weimerskirch, Henri ⁱ   Jean Wickings, E ^j   Coulson, Tim ^a   more..

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f Institut fuer Vogelforschung Vogelwarte Helgoland   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

^j CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^l AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

ⁿ UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^o NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^p DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Aging; Comparative analysis; Demography; Generation time; Metabolic rate; Senescence

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MAMMALS; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44649194403     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01187.x     Document Type: Article

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