Linking freshwater growth to size-dependent marine survival of sockeye salmon: interactions between processes of climate, density, and natural selection

• Main Author: Ree, Marta Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Westley, Peter, Finkle, Heather, Beaudreau, Anne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: sockeye salmon; Alaska; Kodiak Island; growth; Fairbanks; Pacific; Sockeye; Kodiak
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10533

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019 Due to the mediating role of body size in determining fitness, the 'bigger is better' hypothesis still pervades evolutionary ecology despite evidence that natural selection on phenotypic traits varies in time and space. For Pacific salmon...