Effects of recruiting age on senescence, lifespan and lifetime reproductive success in a long-lived seabird

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 615-626

  Kim, Sin Yeon ^a,b   Velando, Alberto ^b   Torres, Roxana ^a   Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Life history; Southern Oscillation Index (SOI); Sula nebouxii; Trade off

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SENESCENCE; TRADE-OFF;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; EL NINO; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MEXICO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION;

SULA NEBOUXII; SULIDAE;

EID: 79958730141     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1914-3     Document Type: Article

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