Life history strategies and spatial dynamics of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus)
Dr. Scient. Thesis. / Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology. University of Bergen. Norway This thesis consists of four papers on the life history strategy and spatial distribution of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus). In the first two papers, sex specific aspects of capelin life histo...
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ftimr:oai:imr.brage.unit.no:11250/196189 2024-09-15T17:57:46+00:00 Life history strategies and spatial dynamics of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus) Huse, Geir 1998-09 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/196189 eng eng University of Bergen Paper I: Huse, G. & H. Gjøsæter 1997. Fecundity of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus). Marine Biology 130:309-313. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050250 Paper II: Huse, G. 1998. Sex-specific life history strategies in capelin (Mallotus villosus)? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:631-638. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f97-275 Paper III: Huse, G. & J. Giske 1998. Ecology in Mare Pentium: An individual based spatio-temporal model for fish with adapted behaviour. Fisheries Research 37:00-00. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00134-9 urn:isbn:82-7744-049-9 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/196189 44 s. capelin lodde Barents Sea Barentshavet Doctoral thesis 1998 ftimr 2024-07-31T03:37:25Z Dr. Scient. Thesis. / Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology. University of Bergen. Norway This thesis consists of four papers on the life history strategy and spatial distribution of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus). In the first two papers, sex specific aspects of capelin life history are investigated from a combination of field sampling and modelling. Paper III deals with the development of a concept for modelling spatial distribution of fish, and in Paper IV the concept is applied for the Barents Sea capelin. Female capelin were found to invest much more energy into reproductive tissue than males. Capelin fecundity was found to depend upon body weight, and inter annual variation in fecundity is related to variation in body weight. A life history model (Paper II) predicts that males have a higher fitness associated with semelparity than females since males may fertilise many females, whereas female fitness is limited by her number of eggs. Given a high or variable adult mortality risk, it may be more profitable for males to be semelparous than iteroparous. Capelin is therefore predicted to have sex specific life history strategies with semelparous males and iteroparous females. This prediction is supported by literature on capelin ecology. In Paper III a concept for modelling spatial distribution of fish is developed. The background for applying a new approach to studying fish distribution, is the lack of approaches for solving specific problems related to capelin ecology. The model is individual based and behaviour is calculated using an artificial neural network where weights are evolved using a genetic algorithm. Through simulating evolution by natural selection in a seasonal spatial model with life cycle, physiology, mortality, and reproduction, the individuals with the best "genetic weights" become increasingly more common in the population. Eventually the population consists of well-adapted individuals, which migrate back to spawning areas in winter, and grow and avoid being eaten ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Barents Sea Barentshav* Institute for Marine Research: Brage IMR Marine Biology 130 2 309 313 |
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Dr. Scient. Thesis. / Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology. University of Bergen. Norway This thesis consists of four papers on the life history strategy and spatial distribution of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus). In the first two papers, sex specific aspects of capelin life history are investigated from a combination of field sampling and modelling. Paper III deals with the development of a concept for modelling spatial distribution of fish, and in Paper IV the concept is applied for the Barents Sea capelin. Female capelin were found to invest much more energy into reproductive tissue than males. Capelin fecundity was found to depend upon body weight, and inter annual variation in fecundity is related to variation in body weight. A life history model (Paper II) predicts that males have a higher fitness associated with semelparity than females since males may fertilise many females, whereas female fitness is limited by her number of eggs. Given a high or variable adult mortality risk, it may be more profitable for males to be semelparous than iteroparous. Capelin is therefore predicted to have sex specific life history strategies with semelparous males and iteroparous females. This prediction is supported by literature on capelin ecology. In Paper III a concept for modelling spatial distribution of fish is developed. The background for applying a new approach to studying fish distribution, is the lack of approaches for solving specific problems related to capelin ecology. The model is individual based and behaviour is calculated using an artificial neural network where weights are evolved using a genetic algorithm. Through simulating evolution by natural selection in a seasonal spatial model with life cycle, physiology, mortality, and reproduction, the individuals with the best "genetic weights" become increasingly more common in the population. Eventually the population consists of well-adapted individuals, which migrate back to spawning areas in winter, and grow and avoid being eaten ... |
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Paper I: Huse, G. & H. Gjøsæter 1997. Fecundity of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus). Marine Biology 130:309-313. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050250 Paper II: Huse, G. 1998. Sex-specific life history strategies in capelin (Mallotus villosus)? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:631-638. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f97-275 Paper III: Huse, G. & J. Giske 1998. Ecology in Mare Pentium: An individual based spatio-temporal model for fish with adapted behaviour. Fisheries Research 37:00-00. Full text not available in Brage IMR due to publisher restrictions. The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00134-9 urn:isbn:82-7744-049-9 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/196189 |
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