Assessing Weddell seal maternal investment in offspring
Reproduction is costly and involves a number of sequential physiological processes that require different levels of energetic investment. In mammalian species gestation and lactation require the most energy and the amount of energy invested in reproduction is reflected in litter size at birth and by...
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| Language: | en |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2011/mannas/MannasJ0511.pdf |