Interacting effects of unobserved heterogeneity and individual stochasticity in the life history of the southern fulmar

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Jenouvrier, Stéphanie, Aubry, Lise M., Barbraud, Christophe, Weimerskirch, Henri, Caswell, Hal
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
• Subjects: Life Histories; Fulmar; Ile des Pétrels; Pétrels; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765524/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28886208; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12752

Individuals are heterogeneous in many ways. Some of these differences are incorporated as individual states (e.g. age, size, breeding status) in population models. However, substantial amounts of heterogeneity may remain unaccounted for, due to unmeasurable genetic, maternal or environmental factors...