Life-history theory provides a framework for detecting resource limitation: a test of the Nutritional Buffer Hypothesis

For ungulates and other long-lived species, life-history theory predicts that nutritional reserves are allocated to reproduction in a state-dependent manner because survival is highly conserved. Further, as per capita food abundance and nutritional reserves decline (i.e., density dependence intensif...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ecological applications 2021-06, Vol.31 (4), p.1-18
Hauptverfasser:	Jesmer, Brett R., Kauffman, Matthew J., Courtemanch, Alyson B., Kilpatrick, Steve, Thomas, Timothy, Yost, Jeff, Monteith, Kevin L., Goheen, Jacob R.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Alces alces Annual variations Body fat Buffers Calves Carrying capacity Climate change Density dependence diet quality Drought Environmental impact Forage Foraging habitats Hypotheses Keigley live‐dead index kidney fat index Life history Moose nitrogen limitation Nutrition nutritional carrying capacity nutritional ecology plant phenology Populations pregnancy Recruitment Reproduction Reproduction (biology) Reserves Ungulates Weather
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