Seasonal reproductive tactics: Annual timing and the capital-to-income breeder continuum

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1734, 2017, Pages

  Williams, Cory T ^a   Klaassen, Marcel ^b   Barnes, Brian M ^a   Buck, C Loren ^c   Arnold, Walter ^d   Giroud, Sylvain ^d   Vetter, Sebastian G ^d   Ruf, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capital breeding; Income breeding; Life history; Phenology; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIRD; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIRD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; MAMMALS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 85031120213     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0250     Document Type: Review

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