Avian predation mediates size-specific survival in a Neotropical annual fish: a field experiment

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly022" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly022</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly022" target="_blank" >10.1093/biolinnean/bly022</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Avian predation mediates size-specific survival in a Neotropical annual fish: a field experiment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Predation and population density have fundamental size- and sex-specific effects on individual survival and demographic parameters. Given the overlap and interactions between different age cohorts in natural populations, separating the factors related to differential survival and growth based on longitudinal field-collected data is problematic. Using a Neotropical annual fish (Austrolebias minuano) with a single age cohort per generation, we used replicated field enclosures to experimentally test the roles of avian predation and fish population density on survival and growth over adult lifespan. We found that mortality risk was higher in larger males and smaller females when predation was experimentally excluded. Exposure to avian predation eliminated this sex-specific effect of body size on survival. No overall sex difference in survival was found in the experiment, despite a female-biased sex ratio in natural populations. Individually based growth rates were highest in enclosures at low population density with no predation risk. Overall, we demonstrate that annual fish suffer high sex-dependent size-specific mortality that is more strongly related to predation than to density-dependent processes. This has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of senescence and other life history traits in annual fishes.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Avian predation mediates size-specific survival in a Neotropical annual fish: a field experiment

Popis výsledku anglicky

Predation and population density have fundamental size- and sex-specific effects on individual survival and demographic parameters. Given the overlap and interactions between different age cohorts in natural populations, separating the factors related to differential survival and growth based on longitudinal field-collected data is problematic. Using a Neotropical annual fish (Austrolebias minuano) with a single age cohort per generation, we used replicated field enclosures to experimentally test the roles of avian predation and fish population density on survival and growth over adult lifespan. We found that mortality risk was higher in larger males and smaller females when predation was experimentally excluded. Exposure to avian predation eliminated this sex-specific effect of body size on survival. No overall sex difference in survival was found in the experiment, despite a female-biased sex ratio in natural populations. Individually based growth rates were highest in enclosures at low population density with no predation risk. Overall, we demonstrate that annual fish suffer high sex-dependent size-specific mortality that is more strongly related to predation than to density-dependent processes. This has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of senescence and other life history traits in annual fishes.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GBP505%2F12%2FG112" target="_blank" >GBP505/12/G112: ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

ISSN

0024-4066

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

124

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

56-66

Kód UT WoS článku

000434109900007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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