State-dependent capital and income breeding: A novel approach to evaluating individual strategies with stable isotopes

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Jaatinen, Kim ^a   Öst, Markus ^a,b   Hobson, Keith A ^c,d  

^a NOVIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital vs. income; Climate change; Reproductive allocation; Resource allocation; Somateria mollissima; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975166290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12983-016-0157-x     Document Type: Article

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