How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots

Studies in natural populations are essential to understand the evolutionary ecology of senescence and terminal allocation. While there are an increasing number of studies investigating late-life variation in different life-history traits of wild populations, little is known about these patterns in social behaviour. We used long-term individual based data on yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer) to quantify how affiliative social behaviours and different life-history traits vary with age and in the last year of life, and how patterns compare between the two. We found that some social behaviours and all life-history traits varied with age, whereas terminal last year of life effects were only observed in life-history traits. Our results imply that affiliative social behaviours do not act as a mechanism to adjust allocation among traits when close to death, and highlight the importance of adopting an integrative approach, studying late-life variation and senescence across multiple different traits, to allow the identification of potential trade-offs. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?'.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:376

Enthalten in:

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 376(2021), 1823 vom: 26. Apr., Seite 20190745

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kroeger, Svenja B [VerfasserIn]
Blumstein, Daniel T [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Julien G A [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Ageing
Journal Article
Life-history trade-offs
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Senescence
Terminal allocation

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.10.2021

Date Revised 29.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5300838

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1098/rstb.2019.0745

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322352665