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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Reproductive phenology is a repeatable, heritable trait linked to the timing of other life-history events in a migratory marine predator.

W C Oosthuizen, P A Pistorius, M N Bester, R Altwegg, P J N de Bruyn

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

W C OosthuizenCentre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2905-6297
P A PistoriusMarine Apex Predator Research Unit, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research and Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha 6031, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6561-7069
M N BesterMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.
R AltweggCentre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4083-6561
P J N de BruynMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9114-9569

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Population-level shifts in reproductive phenology in response to environmental change are common, but whether individual-level responses are modified by demographic and genetic factors remains less well understood. We used mixed models to quantify how reproductive timing varied across 1772 female southern elephant seals (

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ReproductionSeals, EarlessAnimalsClimate ChangeFemaleMoltingMothersPhenotypearrival datebreeding timingMirounga leoninaphenologyphenotypic plasticityrepeatability

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PMID37464761
PMCPMC10354465

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