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Larger but younger fish when growth outpaces mortality in heated ecosystem
| العنوان: | Larger but younger fish when growth outpaces mortality in heated ecosystem |
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| المؤلفون: | Max Lindmark, Malin Karlsson, Anna Gårdmark |
| المصدر: | eLife, Vol 12 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Perca fluviatilis, body growth, size, size-spectrum, mortality, climate change, Medicine, Science, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | Ectotherms are predicted to ‘shrink’ with global warming, in line with general growth models and the temperature-size rule (TSR), both predicting smaller adult sizes with warming. However, they also predict faster juvenile growth rates and thus larger size-at-age of young organisms. Hence, the result of warming on the size-structure of a population depends on the interplay between how mortality rate, juvenile- and adult growth rates are affected by warming. Here, we use two-decade long time series of biological samples from a unique enclosed bay heated by cooling water from a nearby nuclear power plant to become 5–10 °C warmer than its reference area. We used growth-increment biochronologies (12,658 reconstructed length-at-age estimates from 2426 individuals) to quantify how >20 years of warming has affected body growth, size-at-age, and catch to quantify mortality rates and population size- and age structure of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis). In the heated area, growth rates were faster for all sizes, and hence size-at-age was larger for all ages, compared to the reference area. While mortality rates were also higher (lowering mean age by 0.4 years), the faster growth rates lead to a 2 cm larger mean size in the heated area. Differences in the size-spectrum exponent (describing how the abundance declines with size) were less clear statistically. Our analyses reveal that mortality, in addition to plastic growth and size-responses, is a key factor determining the size structure of populations exposed to warming. Understanding the mechanisms by which warming affects the size- and the age structure of populations is critical for predicting the impacts of climate change on ecological functions, interactions, and dynamics. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2050-084X |
| Relation: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/82996; https://doaj.org/toc/2050-084X |
| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.82996 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/fae4bb1ed9bb4050a47c242f3c771632 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.fae4bb1ed9bb4050a47c242f3c771632 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2050084X |
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| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.82996 |