Predicting trait values and measuring selection in complex life histories: Reproductive allocation decisions in Soay sheep

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 985-992

  Childs, D Z ^a   Coulson, T N ^b   Pemberton, J M ^c   Clutton Brock, T H ^d   Rees, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Integral projection model; Life history; Reproductive allocation; Selection analysis; Soay sheep

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELECTION; SHEEP; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80052793581     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01657.x     Document Type: Article

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