Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

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The process of ageing was long thought to be too infrequent to affect life-histories in natural populations. Long-term studies have, however, recently demonstrated ageing to be ubiquitous even in the wild, although confounding factors, such as emigration instead of mortality, or inter-population variation in rates of ageing have seldom been addressed. Here, we present analyses of female age-specific reproductive performance in a Dutch island population of great tits Parus major. For this popu...

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Authors: Bouwhuis, S; van Noordwijk, A; Sheldon, B; Verhulst, S; Visser, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 615-620
• Publication date: 2010-11-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05111.x
• EISSN: 1600-048X
• ISSN: 0908-8857
• Language: English