Nutritional ecology and reproductive output in female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ): Variation among and within populations

Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-100

  Potts, Kevin B ^a  

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallback foods; Pan; Population dynamics; Reproductive ecology; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874245445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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