Age-specific changes in different components of reproductive output in female reindeer: Terminal allocation or senescence?

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 261-271

  Weladji, Robert B ^a   Holand, Øystein ^b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^c   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^d   Mysterud, Atle ^e   Nieminen, Mauri ^f   Stenseth, Nils C ^e  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Energy allocation; Life history tactics; Mother age effects; Rangifer tarandus; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BODY MASS; DEER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SENESCENCE; THRESHOLD;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REINDEER; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; REINDEER; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949775381     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1443-5     Document Type: Article

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