How resource competition shapes individual life history for nonplastic growth: Ungulates in seasonal food environments

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 945-960

  De Roos, André M ^a   Galic, Nika ^a   Heesterbeek, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamic energy budget model; Life history; Population collapses; Population dynamics; Structured population models; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BIOENERGETICS; BODY CONDITION; ENERGY BUDGET; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LACTATION; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; SUCKLING; UNGULATE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVIDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; WEATHER;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; WEATHER;

UNGULATA;

EID: 63849156347     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1153.1     Document Type: Article

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