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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Uncovering bighorn sheep life-history trajectories in multidimensional trait space.

Benjamin Larue, Fanie Pelletier, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Sandra Hamel

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Exposing the role of individual heterogeneity in bighorn sheep population dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. Uncovering bighorn sheep life-history trajectories in multidimensional trait space.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Benjamin LarueDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4608-9288
Fanie PelletierDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0113-5412
Marco Festa-BianchetDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2352-3379
Sandra HamelDépartement de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1126-8814

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individual heterogeneity shapes ecoevolutionary processes at multiple scales. Yet, the scarcity of long-term life-history data and limitations in classic statistical tools hinder our capacity to uncover and understand individual heterogeneity in wildlife populations. Here, we apply an underused multivariate statistical method to uncover four heterogenous life-history trajectories in wild female bighorn sheep (

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Life History TraitsSheep, BighornAnimalsBiological EvolutionFemaleSheepbighorn sheepindividual heterogeneitylife history trade-offslife-history trajectorymixture model

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PMID40112107
PMCPMC11962439

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