Data/hora: 11/06/2024 00:06:38

Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Impact of Environmental Covariation in Growth and Mortality on Evolving Maturation Reaction Norms
Autores: | Marty, Lise; Dieckmann, Ulf; Rochet, Marie-joelle; Ernande, Bruno.
Data: | 2011-04
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Phenotypic plasticity; Growth-reproduction trade-off; Source-sink population structure; Density dependence; Selection gradient.
Resumo: | Maturation age and size have important fitness consequences through their effects on survival probabilities and body sizes. The evolution of maturation reaction norms in response to environmental covariation in growth and mortality is therefore a key subject of life-history theory. The eco-evolutionary model we present and analyze here incorporates critical features that earlier studies of evolving maturation reaction norms have often neglected: the trade-off between growth and reproduction, source-sink population structure, and population regulation through density-dependent growth and fecundity. We report the following findings. First, the evolutionarily optimal age at maturation can be decomposed into the sum of a density-dependent and a density-independent component. These components measure, respectively, the hypothetical negative age at which an individual's length would be 0 and the delay in maturation relative to this offset. Second, along any growth trajectory, individuals mature earlier when mortality is higher. This allows us to deduce, third, how the shapes of evolutionarily optimal maturation reaction norms depend on the covariation between growth and mortality (positive or negative, linear or curvilinear, and deterministic or probabilistic). Providing eco-evolutionary explanations for many alternative reaction-norm shapes, our results appear to be in good agreement with current empirical knowledge on maturation dynamics.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00035/14607/11988.pdf

DOI:10.1086/658988

Editor: | Univ Chicago Press
Relação: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00035/14607/
Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | American Naturalist (0003-0147) (Univ Chicago Press), 2011-04 , Vol. 177 , N. 4 , P. E98-E118
Fonte: | 2011 by The University of Chicago