Does death drive the scaling of life?

DS Glazier - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

Identifying direct and indirect associations among traits by merging phylogenetic comparative methods and structural equation models

JT Thorson, AA Maureaud, R Frelat… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Traits underlie organismal responses to their environment and are essential to predict
community responses to environmental conditions under global change. Species differ in life …

Size-and age-dependent natural mortality in fish populations: Biology, models, implications, and a generalized length-inverse mortality paradigm

K Lorenzen - Fisheries Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural mortality rates (M) in fish populations vary with body size and age, often by orders of
magnitude over the life cycle. Traditionally, fisheries models and stock assessment methods …

Length-based assessment of an exploited coastal pike (Esox lucius) stock (Rügen, southern Baltic Sea) underscores the crucial relevance of growth and natural …

CJ Fitzgerald, JS Droll, S Shephard, CT Monk… - Fisheries …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many capture fisheries are considered data-poor, including the northern pike (Esox lucius)
fishery in brackish lagoons in the southern Baltic Sea of Germany. The objective of our work …

Natural mortality: Theory, estimation and application in fishery stock assessment models

OS Hamel, JN Ianelli, MN Maunder, AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The collection of papers in this special issue illustrates the progress that has been made in
understanding natural mortality and presents a comprehensive overview of the methods and …

A widespread, consistent, and perplexing biphasic pattern in log catch‐at‐age data from a widely harvested family of tropical reef fishes

BM Taylor, J Prince, S Mutz, C Pardee… - Fish and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of cohort decline are key demographic traits that provide a unique temporal
perspective vital to understanding population dynamics. The discovery of multidecadal …

The Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM): A perspective on the first 10 years

MN Maunder, PR Crone, BX Semmens, JL Valero… - Fisheries …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM)
was established in 2013, envisioned as an institute that could conduct, organize, and …

Modeling the bioenergetics of two herbivorous fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: The native Sarpa salpa and the invasive Siganus rivulatus

O Stavrakidis-Zachou, E Klagkou, E Livanou, K Lika - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Global warming has facilitated the invasion of several Red Sea species in the
Mediterranean Sea; a phenomenon known as Lessepsian migration. In this work, two key …

Fishery management strategies for Red Snapper in the southeastern US Atlantic: A spatial population model to compare approaches

K Shertzer, S Crosson, E Williams, J Cao… - … American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus is an iconic species in the
southeast US Atlantic Ocean, sought by both commercial and recreational fleets. Five stock …

Daily age, growth rate, and pelagic larval duration of commercially important snapper species in Abrolhos National Marine Park

JC Silva, M Soeth, CW Hackradt, A Lima… - Journal of Fish …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The age and daily growth of fish are registered through the deposition of increments in their
otoliths, which are concretions formed by the precipitation of substances present in the …