Environmental, not individual, factors drive markers of biological aging in black bears

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 571-584

  Kirby, Rebecca ^a   Alldredge, Mathew W ^b   Pauli, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Mammals Research Section Colorado Parks and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological aging; Landscape variation; Stress; Telomere; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; BEAR; CHROMOSOME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUKARYOTE; FITNESS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EUKARYOTA; URSUS AMERICANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 85009820785     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-017-9885-4     Document Type: Article

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