Size
An individual’s size characterizes its physiology and feeding ecology and is a master trait that can be correlated with life history strategy, fecundity, offspring success, etc., etc. As such, the size-structure of a population is linked to its production and resilience in the face of exploitation. Our efforts to explain and predict size variation in time and space include:
Steele, R. & A.B. Neuheimer. 2022. Assessing the ability of the growing degree-day metric to explain variation in size-at-age and age at moult of lobsters and crabs. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (link)
Black, J.A., A.B. Neuheimer, P.L. Horn, D.M. Tracey, & J.C. Drazen. 2021. Environmental, evolutionary, and ecological drivers of slow growth in deep-sea demersal teleosts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 658: 1-26. (pdf)
Photos: Bottom: Jeff Drazen and Astrid Leitner; Top left: Di Tracey; Top right: NOAA
Jørgensen, K.-E., A.B. Neuheimer, P.E. Jorde, H. Knutsen & P. Grønkjær. 2020. Settlement processes induce differences in daily growth rates between two co-existing ecotypes of juvenile cod Gadus morhua. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 650:175-189. doi: 10.3354/meps13433 (link)
Stige, L.C., L.A. Rogers, A.B. Neuheimer, M.E. Hunsicker, N.A Yaragina, G. Ottersen, L. Ciannelli, Ø. Langangen, & J.M. Durant. 2019. Density- and size-dependent mortality in fish early life stages. Fish and Fisheries 20: 962-976. (pdf)
K.H. Andersen, T. Berge, R.J. Gonçalves, M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, N.S. Jacobsen, C. Lindemann, E.A. Martens, A.B. Neuheimer, K. Olsson, A. Palacz, F. Prowe, J. Sainmont, S.J. Traving, A.W. Visser, N. Wadhwa, and T. Kiørboe. 2016. Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales. Annual Review of Marine Science. 8:3.1-3.25. (link) Note: Fig. 7 has been corrected. Please email ABN for more information.
Neuheimer, A.B., M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, T. Kiørboe, K.H. Olsson, J. Sainmont, and K.H. Andersen. 2015. Adult and offspring size in the ocean over 17 orders of magnitude follows two life history strategies. Ecology. 96: 3303-3311. (link, pdf with Erratum)
Neuheimer, A.B., M. Hartvig, J. Heuschele, S. Hylander, T. Kiørboe, K.H. Olsson, J. Sainmont, and K.H. Andersen. 2015. Adult and offspring size in the ocean: A database of size metrics and conversion factors. Ecology DOI: 10.1890/15-1261. (link)
Also see: Neuheimer, A.B., Hartvig, M., Heuschele, J., Hylander, S., Kiørboe, T., Olsson, K.H., Sainmont, J., Andersen, K.H. 2015. Offspring Size in Marine Animals. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 96:662–663. (link)
Neuheimer, A.B. & P. Grønkjær. 2012. Climate effects on size-at-age: Growth in warming waters compensates for earlier maturity in an exploited marine fish. Global Change Biology 18:1812-1822. (link)
Neuheimer, A.B., R.E. Thresher, J.M. Lyle & J.M. Semmens. 2011. Tolerance limit for fish growth exceeded by warming waters. Nature Climate Change 1:110-113. (link)
Neuheimer, A.B., C.T. Taggart & K.T. Frank. 2008. Size-at-age in haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) - application of the growing degree-day (GDD) metric. Proceedings of the 24th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium: Resiliency of Gadid Stocks to Fishing and Climate Change Symposium, 111-123. (pdf)
Neuheimer, A.B. 2007. Growth in fishes: size-at-age, temperature and food. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.