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Top-down and bottom-up control of life-history strategies in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch).
The American naturalist - 1 May 2006
Snover M L, Watters G M, Mangel M
Abstract excerpt
Sexual maturation profoundly affects population dynamics, but the degrees to which genetic, top-down, and bottom-up controls affect age at maturity are unclear. Salmonid fishes have plastic age at maturity, and we consider genetic and environmental effects on this trait by developing fitness functions for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). The functions are based on size-specific survival and reproductive...
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