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Reproductive skipping as an optimal life history strategy in the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina

Intermittent breeding by which organisms skip some current reproductive opportunities in order to enhance future reproductive success is a common life history trade‐off among long‐lived, iteroparous species. The southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina engages in intermediate breeding when body condi...

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Autor principal: Griffen, Blaine D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30377491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4408