Getting the timing right: Antler growth phenology and sexual selection in a wild red deer population
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Clements, Michelle N.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H; Albon, Steve D.; Pemberton, Josephine M; Kruuk, Loeske
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There has been growing interest in the determinants of the annual timing of biological phenomena, or phenology, in wild populations, but research on vertebrate taxa has primarily focused on the phenology of reproduction. We present here analyses of the phenology of the annual growth of a secondary sexual characteristic, antlers in red deer (Cervus elaphus) males. The long-term individual-based data from a wild population of red deer on the Isle of Rum, Scotland allow us to consider ecological...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2010 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80913 |
Source: | Oecologia |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00442-010-1656-7 |
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