TY - JOUR
T1 - Life history optimisation drives latitudinal gradients and responses to global change in marine fishes
AU - Álvarez-Noriega, Mariana
AU - White, Craig R.
AU - Kozłowski, Jan
AU - Day, Troy
AU - Marshall, Dustin J.
N1 - Funding Information:
MAN was supported by the Centre for Geometric Biology, Monash University (https://cgb. org.au/). DJM was supported by a Future Fellowship (FT180100257) from the Australian Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We thank Michaela Parascandalo for compiling the fecundity data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Alvarez-Noriega et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023/5/25
Y1 - 2023/5/25
N2 - AU Within: Pleaseconfirmthatallheadinglevelsarerepresentedcorrectly many species, and particularly fish, fecundity does not : scale with mass linearly; instead, it scales disproportionately. Disproportionate intraspecific size–reproduction relationships contradict most theories of biological growth and present challenges for the management of biological systems. Yet the drivers of reproductive scaling remain obscure and systematic predictors of how and why reproduction scaling varies are lacking. Here, we parameterise life history optimisation model to predict global patterns in the life histories of marine fishes. Our model predict latitudinal trends in life histories: Polar fish should reproduce at a later age and show steeper reproductive scaling than tropical fish. We tested and confirmed these predictions using a new, global dataset of marine fish life histories, demonstrating that the risks of mortality shape maturation and reproductive scaling. Our model also predicts that global warming will profoundly reshape fish life histories, favouring earlier reproduction, smaller body sizes, and lower mass-specific reproductive outputs, with worrying consequences for population persistence.
AB - AU Within: Pleaseconfirmthatallheadinglevelsarerepresentedcorrectly many species, and particularly fish, fecundity does not : scale with mass linearly; instead, it scales disproportionately. Disproportionate intraspecific size–reproduction relationships contradict most theories of biological growth and present challenges for the management of biological systems. Yet the drivers of reproductive scaling remain obscure and systematic predictors of how and why reproduction scaling varies are lacking. Here, we parameterise life history optimisation model to predict global patterns in the life histories of marine fishes. Our model predict latitudinal trends in life histories: Polar fish should reproduce at a later age and show steeper reproductive scaling than tropical fish. We tested and confirmed these predictions using a new, global dataset of marine fish life histories, demonstrating that the risks of mortality shape maturation and reproductive scaling. Our model also predicts that global warming will profoundly reshape fish life histories, favouring earlier reproduction, smaller body sizes, and lower mass-specific reproductive outputs, with worrying consequences for population persistence.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002114
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002114
M3 - Article
C2 - 37228036
AN - SCOPUS:85160456844
SN - 1544-9173
VL - 21
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
IS - 5
M1 - e3002114
ER -
