Experimental evidence of gradual size-dependent shifts in body size and growth of fish in response to warming.

ABSTRACT: A challenge facing ecologists trying to predict responses to climate change is the few recent analogous conditions to use for comparison. For example, negative relationships between ectotherm body size and temperature are common both across natural thermal gradients and in small-scale experiments. However, it is unknown if short-term body size responses are representative of long-term responses. Moreover, to understand population responses to warming, we must recognize that individual responses to temperature may vary over ontogeny. To enable predictions of how climate warming may affect natural populations, we therefore ask how body size and growth may shift in response to increased temperature over life history, and whether short- and long-term growth responses differ. We addressed these

SUBMITTER: Huss M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850025 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature