Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: Fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Morris, William F ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,c   Brockman, Diane K ^d   Cords, Marina ^e   Fedigan, Linda M ^f   Pusey, Anne E ^a   Stoinski, Tara S ^g   Bronikowski, Anne M ^h   Alberts, Susan C ^a,c   Strier, Karen B ⁱ  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International   (United States)

^h IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariation; Demographic buffering; Environmental stochasticity; Long term fitness; Primate; Serial correlation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FERTILITY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FERTILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICS;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; PRIMATES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650876041     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657443     Document Type: Article

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