Phenotypic variation and selective mortality as major drivers of recruitment variability in fishes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 743-755

  Johnson, Darren W ^a   Grorud Colvert, Kirsten ^b   Sponaugle, Su ^b,c   Semmens, Brice X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependent selection; Fitness surface; Natural selection; Population dynamics; Stock recruit relationships

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; FISH; FITNESS; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

PISCES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; DENSITY-DEPENDENT SELECTION; FISH; FITNESS SURFACE; HISTOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; STOCK-RECRUIT RELATIONSHIPS;

DENSITY-DEPENDENT SELECTION; FITNESS SURFACE; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCK-RECRUIT RELATIONSHIPS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84899898853     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12273     Document Type: Review

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