Contrasting environmental drivers of adult and juvenile growth in a marine fish: implications for the effects of climate change.

ABSTRACT: Many marine fishes have life history strategies that involve ontogenetic changes in the use of coastal habitats. Such ontogenetic shifts may place these species at particular risk from climate change, because the successive environments they inhabit can differ in the type, frequency and severity of changes related to global warming. We used a dendrochronology approach to examine the physical and biological drivers of growth of adult and juvenile mangrove jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus) from tropical north-western Australia. Juveniles of this species inhabit estuarine environments and adults reside on coastal reefs. The Niño-4 index, a measure of the status of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) had the highest correlation with adult growth chronologies, with La Niña years (characteris

SUBMITTER: Ong JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460954 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature