Vital rates of large herbivores normally respond to increased resource limitation by following
a progressive sequence of effects on life‐history characteristics from survival of young, age …

Body reserves of numerous taxa follow seasonal rhythms that are a function of temporal
patterns in food availability and life‐history events; however, tests of the theory underlying …

Demographic data show many populations of Rocky Mountain (Cervus elaphus nelsoni)
and Roosevelt (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) elk have been declining over the last few …

Concerns over declining mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations during the 1990s
prompted research efforts to identify and understand key limiting factors of deer. Similar to …

Phenological events of plants and animals are sensitive to climatic processes. Migration is a
life‐history event exhibited by most large herbivores living in seasonal environments, and is …

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) can live in extremely harsh environments and subsist on
submaintenance diets for much of the year. Under these conditions, energy stored as body …

Because they do not require sacrificing animals, body condition scores (BCS), thickness of
rump fat (MAXFAT), and other similar predictors of body fat have advanced estimating …

Recent work suggests that availability and quality of forage in late summer and early
autumn, a time when female ungulates face multiple energetic demands, is critical to …

Over the past four decades, as the use of the term condition has become more frequent, the
meaning of the term has become increasingly vague. This is especially true in evolutionary …

Superspreading, the phenomenon where a small proportion of individuals contribute
disproportionately to new infections, has profound effects on disease dynamics …