Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: Variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 184-195

  Hayward, Adam D ^a,b   Wilson, Alastair J ^a,c   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^d   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Annual fecundity; Birthweight; Offspring survival; Ovis aries; Selective mortality; Twinning

Indexed keywords

AGING; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; TWINNING;

SAINT KILDA [WESTERN ISLES]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN ISLES;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84873094130     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12029     Document Type: Article

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