Location of capture sufficiently characterises lifetime growth trajectories in a highly mobile fish.

ABSTRACT: Variation in somatic growth plays a critical role in determining an individual's body size and the expression of its life history. Understanding the environmental drivers of growth variation in mobile organisms such as fishes can be challenging because an individual's growth expression integrates processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. Traditionally, otolith (ear stone) based growth analyses have focussed on temporal environmental variation by assuming an individual spends its whole life at its capture location. This approach ignores the movement potential of individuals and thus the role of spatio-temporal variation in conditions experienced. Here, we develop a modelling framework that incorporates individual movement information reconstructed via the analysis of che

SUBMITTER: Barrow JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11912647 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature