evolutionary ecology &
conservation biology
of fishes

Offspring size: offspring number strategies: Selected Publications

Koops, M.A., Hutchings, J.A., and McIntyre, T.M. 2004. Testing hypotheses about egg production, body size and maternal condition in fishes. Fish and Fisheries 5: 120-130. |PDF|

Koops, M.A., Hutchings, J.A., and Adams, B.K. 2003. Environmental predictability and the cost of imperfect information: influences on offspring size variability. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 29-42. |PDF|

Hutchings, J.A. 1997. Life history responses to environmental variability in early life.  In: R.C. Chambers and E.A. Trippel [eds], Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations, Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 139-168. |PDF|

Hutchings, J.A. 1991. Fitness consequences of variation in egg size and food abundance in brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis. Evolution 45: 1162-1168. |PDF|