From traits to life‐history strategies: Deconstructing fish community composition across European seas

By L. Pécuchet, M. Lindegren, M. Hidalgo, M. Delgado, A. Esteban, H. Fock, L. G. Sola, A. Punzón, J. Sólmundsson, M. Payne. 2017

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The life history of a species is determined by trade-offs between growth, survival and reproduction to 33 maximize fitness in a given environment. Following a theoretical model, we investigate whether the 34 composition of marine fish communities can be understood in terms of a set of life history strategies and 35 whether the prevalence of the strategies follows specific spatial patterns that can be related to the 36 environment. An extensive set of scientific bottom trawl surveys were collected to obtain the species composition of fish 41 communities across European Seas. We complemented this data with species-specific information 42 regarding six life history traits, reflecting reproductive, growth and feeding modes. We then calculated the 43 optimal number of strategies needed to summarize the information contained in the traits by using an 44 archetypal analysis. The proportion of each obtained strategy in the communities and their spatial patterns 45 were explained as a function of the environment and their temporal changes were investigated.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. André W. Visser
2. T. Kiørboe
3. K. H. Andersen

In Global and Planetary Change

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2. T. Kiørboe
3. K. H. Andersen
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Kiørboe
2. André W. Visser
3. K. H. Andersen

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• A trait-based approach to ocean ecology (2018, background): “, 2013a), but the first observation-based trait biogeographies and trait distributions for marine organism are now emerging (Barton et al., 2013a, b; Brun et al., 2016c; Pecuchet et al., 2017; van Denderen et al., 2018).”