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Míguez S, Torre I, Arrizabalaga A, Freixas L. Influences of Maternal Weight and Geographic Factors on Offspring Traits of the Edible Dormouse in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:life13051223. [PMID: 37240868 DOI: 10.3390/life13051223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The main goal of this study was to analyze the reproductive patterns of edible dormouse (Glis glis) populations in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula using an 18-year period of data obtained from nest boxes collected between 2004 and 2021. The average litter size in Catalonia (Spain) was 5.5 ± 1.60 (range: 2-9, n = 131), with litter sizes between 5 and 7 pups as the more frequent. The overall mean weight in pink, grey and open eyes pups was 4.8 g/pup, 11.7 g/pup and 23.6 g/pup, respectively. No differences in offspring weights between sexes were found in any of the three age groups. Maternal body weight was positively associated with mean pup weight, whereas no correlation between the weight of the mothers and litter size was found. The trade-off between offspring number and size was not detected at birth. Regarding litter size variation across the geographic gradient (and their climatic gradient associated) from the southernmost populations of the Iberian Peninsula located in Catalonia to the Pyrenees region in Andorra, no evidence to suggest that geographic variables affect litter size was found, discarding (1) an investment in larger litters to compensate shorter seasons related to higher altitudes or northern latitudes, and (2) variation in litter size related to weather changes (e.g., temperature and precipitation) along latitudinal and/or altitudinal gradients.
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- BiBio Research Group, Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, C/Francesc Macià 51, E-08402 Granollers, Spain
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- BiBio Research Group, Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, C/Francesc Macià 51, E-08402 Granollers, Spain
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- BiBio Research Group, Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, C/Francesc Macià 51, E-08402 Granollers, Spain
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Wibisono E, Mous P, Firmana E, Humphries A. A crew-operated data recording system for length-based stock assessment of Indonesia's deep demersal fisheries. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0263646. [PMID: 35213567 PMCID: PMC8880757 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Deep demersal fisheries in Indonesia yielded close to 90,000 metric tons of snapper and grouper in 2019, landed by a fleet of approximately 10,000 fishing boats. Prior to the present study, information on these multi-species, dispersed, small- to medium-scale fisheries was scarce, while reliable species-specific data on catch and effort were non-existent. This data-deficiency made stock assessments and design of harvest control rules impossible. We developed a new data collection method, the Crew Operated Data Recording System (CODRS), to collect verifiable species- and length-composition data from catches across all segments of the fleet. CODRS engaged crews of 579 fishing vessels to take pictures of each fish in their catch, in combination with the deployment of a tracking device on their boats. Furthermore, we also conducted a frame survey to map the fleet across the entire Indonesian archipelago. Using more than 2 million CODRS images, we aimed to understand the basic characteristics and challenges within the fishery. We updated life-history parameters for the top 50 species in the fishery based on the maximum observed length-frequency distribution of the catch (i.e., asymptotic length, size at maturity, optimum fishing length, total mortality, and spawning potential ratio). Length-based stock assessments using the updated life-history parameters showed high risks of overfishing for most of the major target species, especially for snapper species with large maximum sizes. Our results indicated that effective management and harvest strategies are urgently needed across Indonesia's eleven Fishery Management Areas to prevent the collapse of these important fisheries.
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- Elle Wibisono
- Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara (YKAN) Fisheries Program, Bali, Indonesia
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- Indonesia Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Directorate General of Capture Fisheries, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Wolz M, Klockmann M, Schmitz T, Pekár S, Bonte D, Uhl G. Dispersal and life-history traits in a spider with rapid range expansion. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY 2020; 8:2. [PMID: 31921424 PMCID: PMC6947977 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-019-0182-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dispersal and reproduction are key life-history traits that jointly determine species' potential to expand their distribution, for instance in light of ongoing climate change. These life-history traits are known to be under selection by changing local environmental conditions, but they may also evolve by spatial sorting. While local natural selection and spatial sorting are mainly studied in model organisms, we do not know the degree to which these processes are relevant in the wild, despite their importance to a comprehensive understanding of species' resistance and tolerance to climate change. METHODS The wasp spider Argiope bruennichi has undergone a natural range expansion - from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe during the recent decades. Using reciprocal common garden experiments in the laboratory, we studied differences in crucial traits between replicated core (Southern France) and edge (Baltic States) populations. We tested theoretical predictions of enhanced dispersal (ballooning behaviour) and reproductive performance (fecundity and winter survival) at the expansion front due to spatial sorting and local environmental conditions. RESULTS Dispersal rates were not consistently higher at the northern expansion front, but were impacted by the overwintering climatic conditions experienced, such that dispersal was higher when spiderlings had experienced winter conditions as occur in their region. Hatching success and winter survival were lower at the range border. In agreement with theoretical predictions, spiders from the northern leading edge invested more in reproduction for their given body size. CONCLUSIONS We found no evidence for spatial sorting leading to higher dispersal in northern range edge populations of A. bruennichi. However, reproductive investment and overwintering survival between core and edge populations differed. These life-history traits that directly affect species' expansion rates seem to have diverged during the recent range expansion of A. bruennichi. We discuss the observed changes with respect to the species' natural history and the ecological drivers associated with range expansion to northern latitudes.
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- Marina Wolz
- Zoological Institute and Museum, General and Systematic Zoology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Zoological Institute and Museum, General and Systematic Zoology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Zoological Institute and Museum, General and Systematic Zoology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Zoological Institute and Museum, General and Systematic Zoology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Ayllón D, Railsback SF, Harvey BC, García Quirós I, Nicola GG, Elvira B, Almodóvar A. Mechanistic simulations predict that thermal and hydrological effects of climate change on Mediterranean trout cannot be offset by adaptive behaviour, evolution, and increased food production. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 693:133648. [PMID: 31634990 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Streamflow is a main driver of fish population dynamics and is projected to decrease in much of the northern hemisphere, especially in the Mediterranean region, due to climate change. However, predictions of future climate effects on cold-water freshwater fish populations have typically focused only on the ecological consequences of increasing temperatures, overlooking the concurrent and interacting effects of climate-driven changes in streamflow regimes. Here, we present simulations that contrasted the consequences of changes in thermal regime alone versus the combined effects of changes in thermal regime and streamflow for resident trout populations in distinct river types with different sensitivities to climatic change (low-altitude main river vs. high-altitude headwaters). We additionally assessed the buffering effect of increased food production that may be linked to warming. We used an eco-genetic individual-based model that integrates the behavioural and physiological effects of extrinsic environmental drivers -temperature and flow- with intrinsic dynamics -density-dependence, phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary responses - across the entire trout life cycle, with Mediterranean brown trout Salmo trutta as the model species. Our simulations indicated that: (1) Hydrological change is a critical dimension of climate change for the persistence of trout populations, in that neither river type supported viable populations under strong rates of flow change, even under scenarios of increased food production. (2) Climate-change-related environmental change most affects the largest, oldest trout via increased metabolic costs and decreased energy inputs. In both river types, populations persisted under extreme warming alone but became dominated by younger, smaller fish. (3) Density-dependent, plastic and evolutionary changes in phenology and life-history traits provide trout populations with important resilience to warming, but strong concurrent shifts in streamflow could exceed the buffering conferred by such intrinsic dynamics.
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- Daniel Ayllón
- Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Madrid, Spain.
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- Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Arcata, CA, USA
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Department of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, Spain
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- Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Madrid, Spain
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- Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Madrid, Spain
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Riesch R, Martin RA, Diamond SE, Jourdan J, Plath M, Brian Langerhans R. Thermal regime drives a latitudinal gradient in morphology and life history in a livebearing fish. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Rüdiger Riesch
- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
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- Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Biological Sciences & W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Makhrov AA, Artamonova VS, Murza IG, Pashkov AN, Ponomareva MV, Reshetnikov SI, Christoforov OL. Ecological Forms of Black Sea Brown Trout (Salmo trutta labrax) in the Mzymta River as Manifestation of Ontogenetic Plasticity. Russ J Dev Biol 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062360418020054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Life-History Responses to the Altitudinal Gradient. HIGH MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION IN A CHANGING WORLD 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55982-7_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ayllón D, Railsback SF, Vincenzi S, Groeneveld J, Almodóvar A, Grimm V. InSTREAM-Gen: Modelling eco-evolutionary dynamics of trout populations under anthropogenic environmental change. Ecol Modell 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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