Article
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator.
The American naturalist - 1 Sept 2023
Badger Janelle J, Bowen W Don, den Heyer Cornelia E, Breed Greg A
Abstract excerpt
AbstractIndividual quality and environmental conditions may mask or interact with energetic trade-offs in life history evolution. Deconstructing these sources of variation is especially difficult in long-lived species that are rarely observed on timescales long enough to disentangle these effects. Here, we investigated relative support for variation in female quality and costs of reproduction as factors shaping...
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