Life-history variation along environmental and harvest clines of a northern freshwater fish: Plasticity and adaptation

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作者
Wilson, Kyle L. [1 ,2 ]
De Gisi, Joe [3 ]
Cahill, Christopher L. [1 ]
Barker, Oliver E. [4 ]
Post, John R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calgary, Dept Biol Sci, Calgary, AB, Canada
[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Earth Ocean Res Grp, Burnaby, BC, Canada
[3] British Columbia Minist Forests Lands & Nat Resou, Fish & Wildlife Sect, Smithers, BC, Canada
[4] Yukon Dept Environm, Whitehorse, YT, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Bayesian; biphasic growth; clinal variation; harvest-induced evolution; life-history trade-offs; plasticity; Salvelinus namaycush; TROUT SALVELINUS-NAMAYCUSH; LAKE TROUT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; GEOGRAPHIC-VARIATION; SOMATIC GROWTH; EVOLUTION; SIZE; POPULATIONS; FISHERIES; TRAITS;
D O I
10.1111/1365-2656.12965
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Plasticity, local adaptation and evolutionary trade-offs drive clinal variation in traits associated with lifetime growth. Disentangling the processes and determinants that cause these traits to vary helps to understand species' responses to changing environments. This is particularly urgent for exploited populations, where size-selective harvest can induce life-history evolution. Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) are an exploited fish with a life history adapted to low-productivity freshwaters of northern North America, which makes them highly vulnerable to ecosystem changes and overfishing. We characterized life-history variation across a broad and diverse landscape for this iconic northern freshwater fish and evaluated whether clinal variation was consistent with hypotheses for local adaptation or growth plasticity. We estimated growth-associated traits for 90 populations exposed to a diversity of environments using a Bayesian multivariate hierarchical model. We tested for clinal variation in their somatic growth, size at maturity and reproductive allocation along environmental gradients of lake productivity, climate, prey and exploitation clines under competing hypotheses of plasticity and local adaptation. Clinal life-history variation was consistent with growth plasticity and local adaptations but not harvest-induced evolution. Variation in somatic growth was explained by exploitation, climate and prey fish occurrence. Increased exploitation, from pristine to fully exploited conditions, led to increased somatic growth (from 32 to 45mm/year) and adult life spans, and reduced age at maturity (from 11 to 8years). Variation in size at maturity was explained by climate and, less certainly, prey fish occurrence, while reproductive allocation was explained by evolutionary trade-offs with mortality and other traits, but not environment. Lake trout life-history variation within this range was as wide as that observed across dozens of other freshwater species. Lake trout life histories resulted from evolutionary trade-offs, growth plasticity and local adaptations along several environmental clines. Presuming a plastic response, we documented similar to 1.4-fold growth compensation to exploitationlower growth compensation than observed in many freshwater fishes. These results suggest that harvested species exposed to spatially structured and diverse environments may have substantial clinal variation on different traits, but due to different processes, and this has implications for their resilience and successful management.
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页码:717 / 733
页数:17
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