Eco-genetic model to explore fishing-induced ecological and evolutionary effects on growth and maturation schedules.

ABSTRACT: Eco-genetic individual-based models involve tracking the ecological dynamics of simulated individual organisms that are in part characterized by heritable parameters. We developed an eco-genetic individual-based model to explore ecological and evolutionary interactions of fish growth and maturation schedules. Our model is flexible and allows for exploration of the effects of heritable growth rates (based on von Bertalanffy and biphasic growth patterns), heritable maturation schedules (based on maturation reaction norm concepts), or both on individual- and population-level traits. In baseline simulations with rather simple ecological trade-offs and over a relatively short time period (<200 simulation years), simulated male and female fish evolve differential genetic growth and maturation. F

SUBMITTER: Wang HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3352491 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature