Early Life History Dynamics of Marine Fish: Size-Specific Biochemical and Morphometric Indices of Larval Feeding and Survival

这项研究试图获得一套全面和创新的对个别鱼类幼体的关键测量，以充分表征动物特定大小的生长，以及这些测量对不同食物水平的反应。这些值会随着动物的发育而改变，因此，如果要知道幼虫在种群过程中的作用，就必须表征和了解幼虫生理和生态中与大小有关的变化。将评估这些测量的典型值、它们的观测分布和变异性，以及它们彼此之间的关系的强度。这项工作的基本目标是：1)得出个别海鱼幼体特定大小发育模式的基线信息，这些模式预计在实地补充过程研究中具有重要意义；2)相互比较这组条件指数，以了解它们之间关系的强度，以及它们在指示整体动物状况和预测继续存活方面的相对价值。

This research seeks to obtain a comprehensive and innovative set of key measurements on individual fish larvae that will fully characterize the animal's size-specific growth, as well as the response of these measures to different food levels. These values will change with the animal's development, and so the size-related changes in larval physiology and ecology must be characterized and understood if their role in population processes is to be known. The typical values of the measurements, their observed distributions and variability, and the strength of their relation ship to one another, will be evaluated. The underlying goals for the work are: 1) to derive baseline information on the size-specific development patterns in individual marine fish larvae that are expected to be important in field recruitment process studies, and 2) to intercompare this set of condition indices to learn the strength of the relationships among them, and what their relative value would be for indicating overall animal condition and predicting continued survival.