Age at the onset of senescence in birds and mammals is predicted by early-life performance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1695, 2010, Pages 2849-2856

  Péron, Guillaume ^a   Gimenez, Olivier ^a   Charmantier, Anne ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b   Crochet, Pierre André ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Actuarial senescence; Comparative analysis; Life history variation; Scaling relationship

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE CLASS; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956903729     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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