Objective Empirical evidence for mammals show that population dynamics depend both on individual characteristics and environmental conditions. However, because of the scarcity of long-term monitoring, individual variation and inter-annual variability of environment are seldom quantified and almost never included in demographic models. We will work on two long-term monitoring of red deer populations, to measure the impact of climate on population dynamics. Three aspects will be investigated: (1) the relationship between age survival and reproductive history of individual; we will test whether senescence is linked with previous reproductive effort, (2) the quantification of environmental variability on survival per age and sex classes, (3) the impact of environmental variability on life history evolution. The analysis of those exceptionnally long data sets will insure new insight in life history strategies of vertebrates. Fields of science humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorynatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologymammalogy Programme(s) FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants TL15 - Population Sciences (inc.Ecology, Evolutionary Sc., Biodiversity & Conserva.) Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships) Coordinator Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Address 2,tungasletta 7005 Trondheim Norway See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Not available France EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map
