Fig. 3.

Age-specific (1, 2, 3) overall mortality P(M) as a function of early-life growth rate (in g/day) for (a) male and (b) female wild boar in Châteauvillain-Arc-en-Barrois. The points depict the mortality estimates and associated 95% confidence intervals for each class of early-life growth rates from models with early-life growth rate included as a categorical variable. The lines show estimates from the selected models with early-life growth rate as a continuous individual covariate (see Table 2A) and associated 95% confidence intervals. The rug plot shows the respective distributions of early-life growth rates for each sex. The stars depict age-specific mortality estimates from models with either negative to zero early-life growth rates or positive early-life growth rates. The estimates from the categorical models are plotted against the median value in the range of early-life growth rates for a given bin