High hunting pressure selects for earlier birth date: Wild boar as a case study

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3100-3112

  Gamelon, Marlène ^a   Besnard, Aurélien ^b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^c   Servanty, Sabrina ^d   Baubet, Eric ^e   Brandt, Serge ^b   Gimenez, Olivier ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Birth timing; Elastogram; Exploited populations; Population dynamics; Selection gradient analyses; Sus scrofa scrofa

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLOITATION; FITNESS; HUNTING; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MORTALITY; PIG; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH; FRANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SWINE; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FRANCE; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTURITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS;

SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA SCROFA;

EID: 80054963670     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01366.x     Document Type: Article

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