Detecting Fisheries-Induced Life-History Evolution: An Overview of the Reaction-Norm Approach
Detecting Fisheries-Induced Life-History Evolution: An Overview of the Reaction-Norm Approach
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检测渔业引起的生活史进化:反应范数方法概述
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2008
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通讯作者:
U. Dieckmann
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M. Heino;U. Dieckmann
Life-history theory unequivocally suggests that fishing acts as a powerful driver of life-history evolution in exploited fish populations. Because life-history traits are closely linked to the dynamics and productivity of fish populations, understand ing and documenting the extent to which this expectation is borne out in reality is both scientifically and practically important. The primary empirical challenges are twofold: observing phenotypic change does not imply genetic change as life-history traits are phenotypically plastic, and fishing is but one potential driver of contem porary evolution. here we focus on the first challenge by describing how to work toward disentangling genetic and plastic effects in the absence of genetic data. In particular, we explain how the consideration of maturation reaction norms helps to disentangle genetic and plastic changes in age and size at maturation. We first out line the logic and limitations of the maturation reaction-norm approach. We then review the most important statistical methods available for estimating maturation reaction norms from empirical data. For each of these methods, we discuss its do main of applicability together with its strengths and weaknesses. Life-history theory suggests that much of the diversity in life-history characteris tics can be attributed to alternative means of coping with different mortality patterns (Roff, 1992; Stearns, 1992). For fish, changes in mortality caused by industrial-scale fishing are drastic, in terms of both magnitude and pattern: mortality imposed by fishing can exceed natural mortality by several hundred percent and typically in