Climate warming causes life-history evolution in a model for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).

ABSTRACT: Climate change influences the marine environment, with ocean warming being the foremost driving factor governing changes in the physiology and ecology of fish. At the individual level, increasing temperature influences bioenergetics and numerous physiological and life-history processes, which have consequences for the population level and beyond. We provide a state-dependent energy allocation model that predicts temperature-induced adaptations for life histories and behaviour for the North-East Arctic stock (NEA) of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in response to climate warming. The key constraint is temperature-dependent respiratory physiology, and the model includes a number of trade-offs that reflect key physiological and ecological processes. Dynamic programming is used to find an evolutio

SUBMITTER: Holt RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4806736 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature