State-dependent fertility in pinnipeds: contrasting capital and income breeders.

• Main Author: Boyd, Ian Lamont
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: fecundity; life history; mammals; seals; ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS; SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS; BODY CONDITION; LIFE-HISTORY; GREY SEALS; BREEDING EXPERIENCE; HALICHOERUS-GRYPUS; AGE; SIZE; REPRODUCTION; Antarctic; Hombron; Jacquinot; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Crabeater Seal; Elephant Seals; Lobodon carcinophagus; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publications/a06ba0e8-a5cc-4f36-a93b-23f81f5bb481; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033738391&partnerID=8YFLogxK

1. The study tested the hypothesis that the occurrence of pregnancy in mammals that are capital breeders will be most closely related to state variables that are indices of food stores. Income breeders would not be expected to have the same relationship. 2. The study examined the relationships betwe...