Sex-specific senescence in body mass of a monogamous and monomorphic mammal: The case of Alpine marmots

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 427-436

  Tafani, Marion ^a   Cohas, Aurélie ^a   Bonenfant, Christophe ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^a   Lardy, Sophie ^a   Allainé, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Ageing; Individual heterogeneity; Marmotamarmota; Sexual selection; Terminal decline

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; HIBERNATION; MORPHOLOGY; RODENT; SENESCENCE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; THERMOREGULATION;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; MARMOTA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; MARMOTA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA;

EID: 84878113246     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2499-1     Document Type: Article

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