Natural mortality (M) is one of the most influential parameters in fisheries stock assessment
and management. It relates directly to stock productivity and reference points used for …

The hypothesis that traits closely associated with fitness will generally possess lower
heritabilities than traits more loosely connected with fitness is tested using 1120 narrow …

Body size determines total reproductive-energy output. Most theories assume reproductive
output is a fixed proportion of size, with respect to mass, but formal macroecological tests are …

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has
evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and …

Brian Charlesworth This book represents the first attempt to review the subject of age-
structured populations. The topics discussed include demography and ecological dynamics …

We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and
management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science. These …

We used life‐history theory to predict reaction norms for age and size at maturation. We
assumed that fecundity increases with size and that juvenile mortality rates of offspring …

The evolution of intrinsic growth rate has received less attention than other life history traits,
and has been studied differently in plants, homoiotherms, and poikilotherms. The benefits of …

The Beverton and Holt invariants are three special relations among life history parameters:
Mxm= C1, M/K= C2, and L (xm)/Linf= C3, where M is the instantaneous natural mortality rate …