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The Quest for Darwinian Fitness : A Case Study of Elephant Seals / by Bernard Le Boeuf

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2025Edition: 1st ed. 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 219 p. 42 illus., 21 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783031830150
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783031830143 | 9783031830167 | 9783031830174 | Erscheint auch als: 9783031830143 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031830167 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031830174 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 570 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-83015-0Online resources: Summary: LONGTERM STUDY OF INDIVIDUALS -- SOCIAL BEHAVIOR ON LAND -- POPULATION DYNAMICS -- PHYSIOLOGY -- DIVING AND FORAGING -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS.Summary: The mating game plays a central role in promoting individual biological fitness, but many other life-history traits (physical, physiological, and behavioral) also influence fitness. This book is about the optimal method for measuring biological fitness in mammals. This involves measuring lifetime reproductive success of individuals that survive to breeding age while living freely in nature. Constant monitoring of individuals is required, which explains why such studies are difficult to conduct and rare. I use a long-term study of extremely polygynous northern elephant seals (over 62 continuous years) to illustrate the necessary operations, benefits, pitfalls, and difficulties in conducting such studies. The aim of this treatise is to inform and facilitate future investigations of other animals. The Quest for Darwinian Fitness: Case Studies of Elephant Seals is a long-term study of the lifetime reproductive success of individuals, a practical approach to determining biological fitness. This case study is based on an animal that has been studied intensively. The aim of this chronicle is to facilitate the future long-term of other animals. .PPN: PPN: 1920027513Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SBL | ZDB-2-SXB
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