Predation Mortality of Fish Larvae: Peril of the Unfit or the Unfortunate?

9521240富曼鱼类种群丰度的波动是影响早期生命阶段生存的生物和环境因素造成的。捕食死亡率是年龄级大小的主要调节因素，其与幼虫生长速度和幼虫易受捕食者攻击的时间的相互作用可能是最常在海洋中运行的机制。这项研究侧重于对幼虫招募的普遍接受的假说的替代，具体地说，生长速度和先天适合度，即批次大小，影响幼虫的生存潜力。来自行为学、模型和中微体实验的数据将为理解捕食在幼虫补充到成虫种群中的重要性提供基础。***

9521240 Fuiman Fluctuations in the abundances of fish stocks result from biotic and environmental factors that affect the survival of early life stages. Mortality from predation is a major regulator of year-class size and its interaction with larval growth rate and the time at which larvae are vulnerabile to predators may be the mechanisms most often operating in the sea. This research focuses on an alternative to a generally accepted hypothesis for larval recruitment, specifically, that growth rate and innate fitness, lot simply size, influence survival potential of larvae. Data from ethological, modeling and mesocosm experiments will provide a basis for understanding the importance of predation on recruitment of larvae to adult stocks. ***