Multiple-batch spawning: a risk spreading strategy disarmed by highly intensive size-selective fishing
Here we upload the files that support our research on the role of risk-spreading strategies in the light of fisheries-induced evolution. The code is stored in Zenodo. Abstract from the paper: Can the advantage of risk-managing life-history strategies become a disadvantage under human-induced evoluti...
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2022
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/6990067 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3j9kd51m2 |
| Summary: | Here we upload the files that support our research on the role of risk-spreading strategies in the light of fisheries-induced evolution. The code is stored in Zenodo. Abstract from the paper: Can the advantage of risk-managing life-history strategies become a disadvantage under human-induced evolution? Organisms have adapted to the variability and the uncertainty of environmental conditions with a vast diversity of life-history strategies. One of such evolved strategies is multiple-batch spawning, a spawning strategy common to long-lived fishes that 'hedge their bets', by distributing the risk to their offspring on a temporal and spatial scale. The fitness benefits of this spawning strategy increase with female body size, the very trait that size-selective fishing targets. By applying an empirically and theoretically motivated eco-evolutionary mechanistic model that was parameterized for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), we explored how fishing intensity may alter the life-history traits and fitness of fishes that are multiple-batch spawners. Our main findings are twofold; first, the risk-spreading strategy of multiple-batch spawning is not effective against fisheries selection, because the fisheries selection favours smaller fish with lower risk-spreading effect, and second, the ecological recovery in population size does not secure evolutionary recovery in the population size structure. The beneficial risk-spreading mechanism of the batch spawning strategy highlights the importance of recovery in the size structure of overfished stocks, from which a full recovery in the population size can follow. Simulations and data analyses were conducted in the open-source statistical programming language R (R Core Team, 2021). We used the empirically-motivated individual-based eco-evolutionary model to simulate the dataset. |
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