Life-history differences in age-dependent expressions of multiple ornaments and behaviors in a lekking bird

American Naturalist

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-27

  Kervinen, Matti ^a   Lebigre, Christophe ^b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Siitari, Heli ^a   Soulsbury, Carl D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Académie Louvain   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Individual improvement; Lek; Life span; Long term data; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FITNESS; GAMEBIRD; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LEK; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ORNAMENTATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; TETRAO TETRIX;

AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; GALLIFORMES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GALLIFORMES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84920453709     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: 15375323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/679012     Document Type: Article

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