The forms and fitness cost of senescence: Age-specific recapture, survival, reproduction, and reproductive value in a wild bird population

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bouwhuis, Sandra ^a,b   Choquet, Rémi ^c   Sheldon, Ben C ^a   Verhulst, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Age specific reproduction and survival; Life history; Mark recapture models; Parus major; Reproductive value; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; BREEDING POPULATION; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PASSERINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLY; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SONGBIRD; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DIPTERA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; LONGEVITY; MAMMALS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 83655172678     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663194     Document Type: Article

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