Why do highly fecund organisms apparently sacrifice offspring size for increased numbers
when offspring survival generally increases with size,,? The theoretical tools for …

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Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection
on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict,. Under such sexual …

Many salmon species include males which mature as much as 50% younger and as small
as 30% of the adult body size of other males in the population1–8. In the semelparous …

To understand the processes that regulate the abundance and persistence of wild
populations is a fundamental goal of ecology and a prerequisite for the management of …

It is now clear that fished populations can fluctuate more than unharvested stocks. However,
it is not clear why. Here we distinguish among three major competing mechanisms for this …

The separation of the effects of environmental variability from the impacts of fishing has been
elusive, but is essential for sound fisheries management,,,,,,. We distinguish environmental …

Maternal effects are increasingly recognized as important drivers of population dynamics
and determinants of evolutionary trajectories. Recently, there has been a proliferation of …

One of the most pervasive themes in ecology is that biological diversity stabilizes ecosystem
processes and the services they provide to society,,,, a concept that has become a common …

Indirect-benefit models of sexual selection assert that females gain heritable offspring
advantages through a mating bias for males of superior genetic quality. This has generally …