ArticleEcological monographs2018
From early life to senescence: individual heterogeneity in a long-lived seabird.
Article in Ecological monographs, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Early-life stress reduces senescence in the field for an indeterminately growing ectotherm.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Reproductive aging and age-dependent parental effects on offspring in a long-lived seabird.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Early-growth trajectories affect juvenile survival, age at first reproduction and lifetime fitness in a long-lived seabird, the little penguin.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models.Ecology · 2025Article
- Uncovering bighorn sheep life-history trajectories in multidimensional trait space.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Causes and consequences of pair-bond disruption in a sex-skewed population of a long-lived monogamous seabird.Ecological monographs · 2022Article
- Sex-specific telomere length and dynamics in relation to age and reproductive success in Cory's shearwaters.Molecular ecology · 2020Article
- Interacting effects of unobserved heterogeneity and individual stochasticity in the life history of the southern fulmar.The Journal of animal ecology · 2018Article
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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 (
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