Basal metabolic rate and the rate of senescence in the great tit

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 829-838

  Bouwhuis, Sandra ^a,b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Verhulst, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Basal metabolic rate; Energy expenditure; Great tit; Life history; Parusmajor; Rate of living; Senescence; Uncoupling to survive; Wild population

Indexed keywords

AGING; AGING POPULATION; BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; DATA SET; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SONGBIRD; WILD POPULATION;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 79959849222     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01850.x     Document Type: Article

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