Habitat as a Template for Life Histories of Fish
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2025 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fish ecology; fish bioenergetics; fish behaviour; life history; fisheries
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Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue welcomes field or laboratory studies that test the life history effects of environmental variations, as well as reviews and theoretical papers on this topic.
Life histories regard how individuals grow and survive to maximize the number of highly viable offspring in competition with others. They quantify how individual traits are expressed in response to environmental change, and cover aspects such as habitat use, foraging, migration, dispersal, growth, age and size at maturity of sexes, length of life span, fecundity and reproduction, the timing of these traits, and how they change in response to environmental variation. These traits are all closely related to the fitness of individuals. Environmental changes may include variations in physical habitats, temperature, water flow and level, water quality, nutrient richness, vegetation, and conditions such as competition, predation, or anthropogeny influences like harvest regimes or any kind of pollution. Studies may include concepts such as polymorphism, ontogenetic niche shifts, stunting, partial migration, sex ratio variation, among others. Reaction norms of life history variables, in relation to environmental parameters, will help us predict how individuals and their offspring react to future environmental impacts, whether due to abiotic or a biotic influences. This knowledge is at the core of conservation ecology and important for the management of species.
Prof. Dr. Bror Jonsson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecological trait trade-offs
- environmental stress
- life history traits
- local adaptation
- phenotypic plasticity
- reaction norms
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