Size-dependence of food intake and mortality interact with temperature and seasonality to drive diversity in fish life histories.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how growth and reproduction will adapt to changing environmental conditions is a fundamental question in evolutionary ecology, but predicting the responses of specific taxa is challenging. Analyses of the physiological effects of climate change upon life history evolution rarely consider alternative hypothesized mechanisms, such as size-dependent foraging and the risk of predation, simultaneously shaping optimal growth patterns. To test for interactions between these mechanisms, we embedded a state-dependent energetic model in an ecosystem size-spectrum to ask whether prey availability (foraging) and risk of predation experienced by individual fish can explain observed diversity in life histories of fishes. We found that asymptotic growth emerged from size-based foraging and

SUBMITTER: Kindsvater HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10848883 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature