Ramos, Raul; Granadeiro, Jose Pedro; Nevoux, Marie; Mougin, Jean-Louis; Dias, Maria Peixe; Catry, Paulo(Public Library of Science, 2012-07-16)
Predicting the impact of human activities and their derivable consequences, such as global warming or direct wildlife
mortality, is increasingly relevant in our changing world. Due to their particular life history traits, ...
Recruitment age plays a key role in life‐history evolution. Because individuals allocate limited resources among competing life‐history functions, theory predicts trade‐offs between current reproduction and future growth, ...
Nevoux, Marie; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Wege, Mia(Cambridge University Press, 2015-06)
Observer-based studies often underestimate key ecological parameters. Here a fresh approach
was used to analyse six years (2006–11) of attendance cycles to estimate foraging trip lengths of a
lactating flipper-tagged ...
Early developmental conditions contribute to individual heterogeneity of both phenotypic traits and fitness components, ultimately affecting population dynamics. Although the demographic consequences of ontogenic growth ...
