Reproductive improvement and senescence in a long-lived bird

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 7841-7846

  Rebke, Maren ^a,b   Coulson, Tim ^b   Becker, Peter H ^c   Vaupel, James W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age specific reproduction; Aging; Common tern (Sterna hirundo); Exact decomposition approach; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; STERNA HIRUNDO;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; GERMANY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 77952342819     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002645107     Document Type: Article

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