Getting the timing right: Antler growth phenology and sexual selection in a wild red deer population

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 357-368

  Clements, Michelle N ^a,c   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^b   Albon, Steve D ^c   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixed models; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Sexual selection; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MALE; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DEER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HORN; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; TIME; WEATHER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTLERS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

HIGHLAND; RUM; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956651463     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1656-7     Document Type: Article

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