An evolutionary perspective on reproductive individual heterogeneity in a marine vertebrate

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1158-1168

  Chambert, Thierry ^a   Rotella, Jay J ^a   Garrott, Robert A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Heritability; Life history traits; Marine mammals; Multimodel inference; Natural selection; Parameter uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; PINNIPED; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTICITY; TRADE-OFF; VERTEBRATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; PHOCIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEALS, EARLESS;

EID: 84906316281     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12211     Document Type: Article

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