Journal article
Adult lifetime reproductive value in fish depends on size and fecundity type
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark1
Section for Marine Ecology and Oceanography, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark2
Section for Ecosystem based Marine Management, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark3
In a stable population, the adult lifetime reproductive value must be balanced against early life survival. Although delaying maturity may increase fecundity, it also reduces survival. Larger size at maturity therefore not only allows for higher fecundity, but requires it. Using simple arguments from life history, we derive a direct proportionality relationship between the adult lifetime reproductive value and weight at maturation and find that this relationship is consistent with empirical evidence from 28 stocks and species of bony fish from temperate–boreal environments.
However, the expected proportionality falls off if mortality increases to include fishing. Furthermore, we find that the fecundity type (determinate or indeterminate) affects the predicted adult reproductive value, which is significantly (10-fold) higher for an indeterminate spawner than for a determinate spawner of the same weight.
These differences may relate to trade-offs in the adult life history traits and (or) to seasonality in the spawning environment, with subsequent consequences for early life stage survivorship
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | NRC Research Press |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 1405-1412 |
ISSN: | 12057533 and 0706652x |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1139/cjfas-2015-0378 |
ORCIDs: | Visser, André W. and MacKenzie, Brian R. |