Contrasting between- and within-individual trait effects on mortality risk in a long-lived seabird

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-79

  Zhang, He ^a   Vedder, Oscar ^a   Becker, Peter H ^a   Bouwhuis, Sandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Common Tern; Cost of reproduction; Individual variation; Life expectancy; Life history trade offs; Senescence; Sterna hirundo; Time dependent Cox model

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY RISK; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SENESCENCE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

AGE; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84928880167     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0064.1     Document Type: Article

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