Age-dependent terminal declines in reproductive output in a wild bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Hammers, Martijn ^a,b   Richardson, David S ^b,d   Burke, Terry ^c   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; FEMALE; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SEYCHELLES; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; OVIPARITY; PASSERIFORMES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84863676421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040413     Document Type: Article

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