Ecology and management of range edge populations: the case of toothfish species at the South Sandwich Islands

• Main Author: Roberts, James O.
• Other Authors: Milner-Gulland, EJ, Agnew, David
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Imperial College London 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ross Sea; Sandwich Islands; Saunders; Saunders Island; South Georgia; South Sandwich Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/9969; https://doi.org/10.25560/9969

Current theory suggests that the life history of a species will vary in a predictable way from the range centre where habitat is likely to be optimal, to range peripheries where it is not. Moving towards cold water, high-latitude range edges, life history theory contends that individuals should exhi...