Observational evidence of risk-sensitive reproductive allocation in a long-lived mammal

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 627-639

  Bårdsen, Bård Jørgen ^a,b   Tveraa, Torkild ^a   Fauchald, Per ^a,b   Langeland, Knut ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Environmental stochasticity; Life history; Phenotypic plasticity; Rangifer tarandus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BODY MASS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REINDEER; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; REINDEER; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 77949272713     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1537-0     Document Type: Article

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