Implications of size‐selective fisheries on sexual selection
Abstract Fisheries often combine high mortality with intensive size selectivity and can, thus, be expected to reduce body size and size variability in exploited populations. In many fish species, body size is a sexually selected trait and plays an important role in mate choice and mate competition....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020-07-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Applications |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12988 |