Key life history traits such as age at maturity, longevity and mortality have all shown
correlations with body size. However, the relationship between age and size is particularly …

Many species demonstrate variation in life history attributes in response to gradients in
environmental conditions. For fishes, major drivers of life history variation are changes in …

For organisms with complex life histories, processes occurring during transitions between
stages can strongly affect population dynamics. The major life history transition for many …

The size and age data and patterns of growth of three abundant, reef‐dwelling and
protogynous labrid species (Coris auricularis, Notolabrus parilus and Ophthalmolepis …

Most coral reef fishes have a pelagic larval life stage that varies in length from a few days to
several months (1). It has been suggested that reef fish developed a larval life stage for one …

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated significant spatial variation in the population
biology of coral reef fish. The scales at which this variation occurs often depend on the …

Age and growth studies of flatfish form some of the oldest contributions to the scientific
literature. Age‐estimation methods are based mostly on reading otolith annuli, however …

Among terrestrial organisms, body size exhibits predictable relationships with many
characteristics including growth rate, mortality rate, longevity, reproductive traits, abundance …

The cost of reproduction is a central concept in theories of life-history evolution. One way to
empirically examine the tradeoff between current reproduction and future reproductive …

Age and size at first reproduction have broad implications for studying population and
community ecology. From general functions of body growth we developed models for …