Life-History Strategies of Ungulates
This Special Feature resulted from a symposium on life-history strategies of ungulates presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Blacks-burg, Virginia, in June 1998. The presentations at the symposium represented only a vignette of the wide variety of life-histo...
| Published in: | Journal of Mammalogy |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1999
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| Online Access: | http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/80/4/1067 https://doi.org/10.2307/1383160 |
| Summary: | This Special Feature resulted from a symposium on life-history strategies of ungulates presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Blacks-burg, Virginia, in June 1998. The presentations at the symposium represented only a vignette of the wide variety of life-history strategies that exists among ungulates. The four papers that follow include treatises on birth-site selection of moose ( Alces alces ), sex-ratio correlates with dimorphism and risk of predation, optimal foraging relative to risk of predation, and the role of density dependence in shaping life-history traits of ungulates. A theme of risk of predation in shaping life-history traits is common to three of four papers. |
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