Data from: How many cubs can a mum nurse? Maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears
Life history theory predicts that females' age and size affect the level of maternal investment in current reproduction, balanced against future reproductive effort, maintenance and survival. Using long-term (30 years) individual data on 193 female polar bears (Ursus maritimus), we assessed age...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4980379 2023-06-06T12:00:04+02:00 Data from: How many cubs can a mum nurse? Maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears Folio, Dorinda Marie Aars, Jon Gimenez, Olivier Derocher, Andrew E. Wiig, Oystein Cubaynes, Sarah 2019-04-02 https://zenodo.org/record/4980379 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mb2d353 unknown doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0070 https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://zenodo.org/record/4980379 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mb2d353 oai:zenodo.org:4980379 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode individual heterogeneity maternal traits polar bear reproductive success Reproductive Senescence info:eu-repo/semantics/other dataset 2019 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mb2d35310.1098/rsbl.2019.0070 2023-04-13T21:29:13Z Life history theory predicts that females' age and size affect the level of maternal investment in current reproduction, balanced against future reproductive effort, maintenance and survival. Using long-term (30 years) individual data on 193 female polar bears (Ursus maritimus), we assessed age- and size-specific variation on litter size. Litter size varied with maternal age, younger females had higher chances of losing a cub during their first months of life. Results suggest an improvement of reproductive abilities early in life due to experience with subsequent reproductive senescence. Litter size increased with maternal size, indicating that size may reflect individual quality. We also found an optimum in the probability of having twins, suggesting stabilizing selection on female body size. Heterogeneity was observed among the largest females, suggesting that large size comes at a cost. polarbear Dataset Ursus maritimus Zenodo |
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Life history theory predicts that females' age and size affect the level of maternal investment in current reproduction, balanced against future reproductive effort, maintenance and survival. Using long-term (30 years) individual data on 193 female polar bears (Ursus maritimus), we assessed age- and size-specific variation on litter size. Litter size varied with maternal age, younger females had higher chances of losing a cub during their first months of life. Results suggest an improvement of reproductive abilities early in life due to experience with subsequent reproductive senescence. Litter size increased with maternal size, indicating that size may reflect individual quality. We also found an optimum in the probability of having twins, suggesting stabilizing selection on female body size. Heterogeneity was observed among the largest females, suggesting that large size comes at a cost. polarbear |
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Folio, Dorinda Marie Aars, Jon Gimenez, Olivier Derocher, Andrew E. Wiig, Oystein Cubaynes, Sarah |
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data from: how many cubs can a mum nurse? maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears |
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