Natural 'poor start' does not increase mortality over the lifetime

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1723, 2011, Pages 3421-3427

  Drummond, H ^a   Rodriguez C ^a   Oro, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dominance; Growth; Mortality; Recruitment; Sibling conflict

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; DOMINANCE; FLEDGING; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEABIRD; SIBLING; STEROID; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; SULA NEBOUXII; SULIDAE;

EID: 80053956308     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2569     Document Type: Article

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