Natural selection on body size traits in a long-lived species, the snow-petrel.

• Main Author: Barbraud, Christophe
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2000
• Subjects: survival; body size; heritability; natural selection; Pagodroma nivea; reproductive success; snow petrel; Nivea; Snow Petrel; Snow Petrels
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00211869

International audience I consider the possibility of selection favouring large body size in a population of snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea), a long-lived seabird species. I measured natural selection on body size traits in a population from 1987 to 1998. There was evidence of selection on body size a...