For Breeding Squirrels, Timing is Everything

Media coverage of our paper: Fitness consequences of peak reproductive effort in a resource pulse system

 

See the summary of our work on Wild49, by Anni Hämäläinen: Squirrel baby boomers are masters of timing.

 

Media articles about this paper:

Mothers master tricky timing to give babies a boost, squirrel study suggests. CBC

Baby boomer squirrels master tricky timing. University of Alberta

 

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Find our paper here:

A. Hämäläinen, A.G. McAdam, B. Dantzer, J.E. Lane, J.A. Haines, M. Humphries, S. Boutin. 2017. Fitness consequences of peak reproductive effort in a resource pulse system. Scientific Reports 7: 9335. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09724-x