Fitness consequences of environmental conditions at different life stages in a long-lived vertebrate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1785, 2014, Pages

  Douhard, Mathieu ^a,b   Plard, Floriane ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^a   Capron, Gilles ^c   Delorme, Daniel ^c   Klein, François ^c   Duncan, Patrick ^d   Loe, Leif Egil ^b   Bonenfant, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Development; Long term cohort effects; Phenotypic plasticity; Silver spoon effect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; JUVENILE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SELECTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; MATE CHOICE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84899686944     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0276     Document Type: Article

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