Heterogeneity in individual quality in birds: overall patterns and insights from a study on common terns

Contrasting effects of climate and population density over time and life stages in a long-lived seabird

(2017) Rémi Fay et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Early mortality saves energy: estimating the energetic cost of excess offspring in a seabird

(2017) Oscar Vedder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Successful by Chance? The Power of Mixed Models and Neutral Simulations for the Detection of Individual Fixed Heterogeneity in Fitness Components

(2016) Timothée Bonnet et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evidence of reduced individual heterogeneity in adult survival of long-lived species

(2016) Guillaume Péron et al.   EVOLUTION

When relative allocation depends on total resource acquisition: implication for the analysis of trade-offs

(2016) S. Descamps et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Conundrum of Heterogeneities in Life History Studies

(2016) Emmanuelle Cam et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Old males reduce melanin-pigmented traits and increase reproductive outcome under worse environmental conditions in common kestrels

(2016) David Lopez-Idiaquez et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Contrasting between- and within-individual trait effects on mortality risk in a long-lived seabird

(2015) He Zhang et al.   ECOLOGY

Sex-specific pathways of parental age effects on offspring lifetime reproductive success in a long-lived seabird

(2015) Sandra Bouwhuis et al.   EVOLUTION

Reduced fitness in progeny from old parents in a natural population

(2015) Julia Schroeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence in wild birds: an experimental study

(2014) Jelle J. Boonekamp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The effect of trait type and strength of selection on heritability and evolvability in an island bird population

(2014) Nathaniel T. Wheelwright et al.   EVOLUTION

Age-dependent trait variation: the relative contribution of within-individual change, selective appearance and disappearance in a long-lived seabird

(2014) He Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Age-related variation in reproductive traits in the wandering albatross: evidence for terminal improvement following senescence

(2013) Hannah Froy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lifetime fitness and age-related female ornament signalling: evidence for survival and fecundity selection in the pied flycatcher

(2013) J. Potti et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Costs of growing up as a subordinate sibling are passed to the next generation in blue-footed boobies

(2013) H. Drummond et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Within-Clutch Variation in Yolk Testosterone as an Adaptive Maternal Effect to Modulate Avian Sibling Competition: Evidence from a Comparative Study

(2012) Martina Muller et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Longevity and lifetime reproductive success of barn swallow offspring are predicted by their hatching date and phenotypic quality

(2012) Nicola Saino et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Geographical variation in reproductive ageing patterns and life-history strategy of a short-lived passerine bird

(2012) J. Balbontín et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Age-Dependent Terminal Declines in Reproductive Output in a Wild Bird

(2012) Martijn Hammers et al.   PLoS One

Herring and Sprat Abundance Indices Predict Chick Growth and Reproductive Performance of Common Terns Breeding in the Wadden Sea

(2011) Andreas Dänhardt et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF AGE-DEPENDENCE IN ORNAMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER

(2011) Simon R. Evans et al.   EVOLUTION

Early development, recruitment and life history trajectory in long-lived birds

(2011) Emmanuelle Cam et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Natal conditions alter age-specific reproduction but not survival or senescence in a long-lived bird of prey

(2011) Alexandre Millon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Maternal effects and heritability of annual productivity

(2011) J. SCHROEDER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of recruiting age on senescence, lifespan and lifetime reproductive success in a long-lived seabird

(2011) Sin-Yeon Kim et al.   OECOLOGIA

Parental Age and Lifespan Influence Offspring Recruitment: A Long-Term Study in a Seabird

(2011) Roxana Torres et al.   PLoS One

Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population

(2010) Sandra Bouwhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Dynamic heterogeneity and life history variability in the kittiwake

(2010) Ulrich K. Steiner et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

(2010) Sandra Bouwhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Sex Differences in the Persistence of Natal Environmental Effects on Life Histories

(2009) Teddy A. Wilkin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Age-related improvement in reproductive performance in a long-lived raptor: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study

(2009) Julio Blas et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Age-specific reproduction and survival of individually marked Wood Thrushes,Hylocichla mustelina

(2009) William P. Brown et al.   ECOLOGY

Consequences of recruitment decisions and heterogeneity on age-specific breeding success in a long-lived seabird

(2009) Lise M. Aubry et al.   ECOLOGY

Great tits growing old: selective disappearance and the partitioning of senescence to stages within the breeding cycle

(2009) S. Bouwhuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models

(2008) Martijn van de Pol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dynamic heterogeneity in life histories

(2008) Shripad Tuljapurkar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

HERITABILITY OF FITNESS COMPONENTS IN A WILD BIRD POPULATION

(2008) Céline Teplitsky et al.   EVOLUTION

The Significance of Clutch-size

(2008) David Lack   IBIS

Individual variation in reproductive costs of reproduction: high-quality females always do better

(2008) Sandra Hamel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Timing of initial arrival at the breeding site predicts age at first reproduction in a long-lived migratory bird

(2008) P. H. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA