THE DETERMINANTS OF OPTIMAL LITTER SIZE IN FREE‐RANGING RED SQUIRRELS

By M. Humphries, S. Boutin. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Life histories of female red squirrels and their contributions to population growth and lifetime fitness (2007, background): “Kluane population suggest that females are able to successfully raise litters augmented by 2 offspring with no detectable survival consequences for dams (Humphries & Boutin, 2000).”
Constraints to projecting the effects of climate change on mammals (2006, background): “…on the reproductive energetics of freeranging mammals involves seals (e.g. Donohue et al. 2002, Arnould et al. 2003) and squirrels (Kenagy 1990, Humphries & Boutin 2000), but we are unaware of any detailed mammalian studies of the energetic consequences of the seasonal timing of reproduction…”
Age-specific variation in survival, reproductive success and offspring quality in red squirrels: evidence of senescence (2008, background): “Seed production is highly variable because the conifer trees in the area show mast behaviour and many life history traits in this red squirrel population are strongly affected by seed production (Humphries and Boutin 2000, McAdam and Boutin 2003, Boutin et al. 2006).”
Demography of alpine red squirrel populations in relation to fluctuations in seed crop size (2008, background): “…between fluctuations in food supplies and tree squirrel demography, in particular reproductive output, using populations occurring in one to maximum three different high-quality habitats (Wauters and Lens 1995, Gurnell 1996, Humphries and Boutin 2000, Wauters et al. 2004, Boutin et al. 2006).”
COST OF REPRODUCTION IN THE WILD: MANIPULATION OF REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN THE BANK VOLE (2003, background): “The scarcity of data on life-history trade-offs in the wild partially explains the difficulty in synthesizing a general theory for the role that reproductive costs play in shaping mammalian life histories (Tuomi et al. 1983, Tuomi 1990, Stearns 1992, Humphries and Boutin 2000).”
Associations between over-winter survival and resting metabolic rate in juvenile North American red squirrels (2010, unknown): “…metabolic variation in free-living animals as food availability can be monitored at multiple scales and local recruitment is related to fitness in this population (Boutin & Larsen 1993; Berteaux & Boutin 2000; Humphries & Boutin 2000; Réale et al. 2003; McAdam, Boutin & Sykes 2007; Larivée 2009).”
Expenditure freeze: the metabolic response of small mammals to cold environments (2005, background): “Ecology Letters (2005) 8: 1326–1333”