A fat chance of survival: body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population
Environmental change often causes decreased food availability and/or increased foraging costs, putting wild animals at risk of starvation. Body-fat reserves can enable individuals to resist (buffer) periods of weather-driven food scarcity, improving their chances of survival and subsequent reproduct...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021
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