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Tag Archives: Reproduction

How animals fuel their reproduction: a new approach

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This blog post is provided by John Whiteman and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Quantifying capital vs. income breeding: new promise with stable isotope measurements of individual amino acids“, which was recently published […]

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Lovers and fighters, and how their coexistence affects their evolution within an eco-evolutionary feedback loop

April 9, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Eco-evolutionary dynamics are well studied but the term is applied to a wide variety of effects and interactions. Yet comparing these different types of studies on eco-evolutionary dynamics will inform […]

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Live fast, don’t die young

March 9, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Understanding the trade-offs between survival and reproduction is essential for the study of population dynamics. A recent paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology used a novel statistical framework to reveal previously […]

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Aging in Eagles

July 31, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

For many species, breeding performance changes as an individual ages. So in order to properly monitor and manage animal populations, it is important to understand how different species age. But […]

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Strategic pauses in female elephant seals

December 28, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology has found that poor-quality female southern elephant seals use breeding pauses as a tactic to produce more offspring over their […]

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