Ecological, evolutionary and social constraints on reproductive effort: Are hoary marmots really biennial breeders?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Patil, Vijay P ^a,b   Karels, Timothy J ^b,c   Hik, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNUAL BREEDING; ARTICLE; BIENNIAL BREEDING; BREEDING; CANADA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT HYPOTHESIS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLVED CONSTRAINT HYPOTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER SIZE; MARMOTA; MARMOTA CALIGATA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONSTRAINT HYPOTHESIS; SURVIVAL; WINTER; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA CALIGATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MARMOTA; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929485724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119081     Document Type: Article

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