Life-History Strategies of Ungulates

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Leslie, David M., Bowyer, R. Terry, Kie, John G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1999
• Subjects: Special Feature; Alces alces
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/80/4/1067; https://doi.org/10.2307/1383160

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.