Senescence and costs of reproduction in the life history of a small precocial species

Abstract Species following a fast life history are expected to express fitness costs mainly as increased mortality, while slow‐lived species should suffer fertility costs. Because observational studies have limited power to disentangle intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing senescence, we manip...

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Main Authors: Fritz Trillmich, Edda Geißler, Anja Guenther
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5272