ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots.
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Abstract
Studies in natural populations are essential to understand the evolutionary ecology of senescence and terminal allocation. While there are an increasing number of studies investigating late-life variation in different life-history traits of wild populations, little is known about these patterns in social behaviour. We used long-term individual based data on yellow-bellied marmots (
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