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    Trial and error in the Highlands

    How should the increasing numbers of deer throughout the world be controlled? The situation in Scotland shows that an understanding of the biology of deer can provide practical guidelines.

    T. H. Glutton-Brock, S. D. Albon in Nature (1992)

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    Overcompensation and population cycles in an ungulate

    ALTHOUGH theoretical studies show that overcompensatory density-dependent mechanisms can potentially generate regular or chaotic fluctuations in animal numbers, the majority of realistic single-species models ...

    B. T. Grenfell, O. F. Price, S. D. Albon, T. H. Glutton-Brock in Nature (1992)

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    Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females

    PRONOUNCED sex differences in mating competition are a prominent feature of many animal breeding systems. These differences are widely attributed to sex differences in parental investment1,2which bias the ratio o...

    T. H. Glutton-Brock, A. C. J. Vincent in Nature (1991)