From early life to senescence: individual heterogeneity in a long-lived seabird.

ABSTRACT: Although population studies have long assumed that all individuals of a given sex and age are identical, ignoring among-individual differences may strongly bias our perception of eco-evolutionary processes. Individual heterogeneity, often referred to as individual quality, has received increasing research attention in the last decades. However, there are still substantial gaps in our current knowledge. For example, there is little information on how individual heterogeneity influences various life-history traits simultaneously, and studies describing individual heterogeneity in wild populations are generally not able to jointly identify possible sources of this variation. Here, based on a mark-recapture data set of 9,685 known-aged Wandering Albatrosses (Diomedea exulans), we invest

SUBMITTER: Fay R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084314 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature