Age-specific changes in reproductive effort and terminal investment in female nile lechwe

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-46

  Bercovitch, Fred B ^a   Loomis, Caroline Pitt ^c   Rieches, Randy G ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kobus; Reproductive success; Residual reproductive value; Sex ratio adjustment; Sexual selection; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; KOBUS; KOBUS MEGACEROS; UNGULATA;

EID: 61349145615     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-124.1     Document Type: Article

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