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Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West Brook

November 1, 2022
  1. As air temperature increases, it has been suggested that smaller individual body size may be a general response to climate warming. However, for ectotherms inhabiting cold, highly seasonal environments, warming temperatures may increase the scope for growth and result in larger body size.
  2. In a long-term study of individual brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and brown trout Salmo trutta inhabiting a small stream network, individual lengths increased over the course of 15 years. As size-selective gains and losses to the population acted to reduce body sizes and mean body size at first tagging in the autumn (
Publication Year 2023
Title Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West Brook
DOI 10.1111/1365-2656.1383
Authors Benjamin Letcher, Keith Nislow, Matthew O'Donnell, Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason Coombs, Todd Dubreuil, Daniel Turek
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Journal of Animal Ecology
Index ID 70238103
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Eastern Ecological Science Center
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