Age-specific survival and reproductive probabilities: Evidence for senescence in male fallow deer (Dama dama)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1496, 2002, Pages 1129-1137

  McElligott, Alan G ^a   Altwegg, Res ^a   Hayden, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Capture recapture; Mark program; Multi strata models; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

DEER; EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMA DAMA; DEER; EVOLUTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DEER; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS DAMA; DAMA;

EID: 53149147457     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1993     Document Type: Article

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