Human-induced evolution caused by unnatural selection through harvest of wild animals

FW Allendorf, JJ Hard - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009‏ - pnas.org
Human harvest of phenotypically desirable animals from wild populations imposes selection
that can reduce the frequencies of those desirable phenotypes. Hunting and fishing contrast …

Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems

H Kokko, DJ Rankin - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2006‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Two very basic ideas in sexual selection are heavily influenced by numbers of potential
mates: the evolution of anisogamy, leading to sex role differentiation, and the frequency …

A standardized terminology for describing reproductive development in fishes

NJ Brown‐Peterson, DM Wyanski… - Marine and Coastal …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
As the number of fish reproduction studies has proliferated, so has the number of gonadal
classification schemes and terms. This has made it difficult for both scientists and resource …

Tip** point realized in cod fishery

C Möllmann, X Cormon, S Funk, SA Otto, JO Schmidt… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Understanding tip** point dynamics in harvested ecosystems is of crucial importance for
sustainable resource management because ignoring their existence imperils social …

[كتاب][B] Reproductive biology of teleost fishes

RJ Wootton, C Smith - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes is the first integrated review of the reproductive
biology of the bony fishes, which are the most species-rich and diversified group of …

Marine fish population collapses: consequences for recovery and extinction risk

JA Hutchings, JD Reynolds - BioScience, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Rapid declines threaten the persistence of many marine fish. Data from more than 230
populations reveal a median reduction of 83% in breeding population size from known …

A fuzzy logic expert system to estimate intrinsic extinction vulnerabilities of marine fishes to fishing

WWL Cheung, TJ Pitcher, D Pauly - Biological conservation, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Fishing has become a major conservation threat to marine fishes. Effective conservation of
threatened species requires timely identification of vulnerable species. However, evaluation …

Fish spawning aggregations: where well‐placed management actions can yield big benefits for fisheries and conservation

B Erisman, W Heyman, S Kobara, T Ezer… - Fish and …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Marine ecosystem management has traditionally been divided between fisheries
management and biodiversity conservation approaches, and the merging of these disparate …

Genetic quality and sexual selection: an integrated framework for good genes and compatible genes

BD Neff, TE Pitcher - Molecular ecology, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
Why are females so choosy when it comes to mating? This question has puzzled and
marveled evolutionary and behavioral ecologists for decades. In mating systems in which …

Biology of extinction risk in marine fishes

JD Reynolds, NK Dulvy… - Proceedings of the …, 2005‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review interactions between extrinsic threats to marine fishes and intrinsic aspects of
their biology that determine how populations and species respond to those threats …