Exploring individual quality in a wild population of red deer

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 406-413

  Moyes, Kelly ^a,b,c   Morgan, Byron J T ^a   Morris, Alison ^c   Morris, Sean J ^c   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^c   Coulson, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fitness; Individual heterogeneity; Phenotypic variation; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

DEER; FITNESS; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 59449084680     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01497.x     Document Type: Article

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