Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major
The process of ageing was long thought to be too infrequent to affect life-histories in natural populations. Long-term studies have, however, recently demonstrated ageing to be ubiquitous even in the wild, although confounding factors, such as emigration instead of mortality, or inter-population var...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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