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Size-dependent eco-evolutionary feedbacks in fisheries

View ORCID ProfileEdeline Eric, View ORCID ProfileLoeuille Nicolas
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.03.022905
Edeline Eric
1Sorbonne Université/UPMC Univ. Paris 06/CNRS/INRA/IRD/Paris Diderot Univ. Paris 07/UPEC/Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement – Paris (iEES-Paris), 4 Place Jussieu, FR-75252 Paris, France
2ESE Ecology and Ecosystem Health, INRAE, Agocampus Ouest, 35042 Rennes, France
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Loeuille Nicolas
1Sorbonne Université/UPMC Univ. Paris 06/CNRS/INRA/IRD/Paris Diderot Univ. Paris 07/UPEC/Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement – Paris (iEES-Paris), 4 Place Jussieu, FR-75252 Paris, France
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Abstract

Harvesting may drive body downsizing along with population declines and decreased harvesting yields. These changes are commonly construed as consequences of direct harvest selection, where small-bodied, early-reproducing individuals are immediately favoured. However, together with directly selecting against a large body size, harvesting and body downsizing alter many ecological features, such as competitive and trophic interactions, and thus also indirectly reshape natural selection acting back on body sizes through eco-evolutionary feedback loops (EEFLs). We sketch plausible scenarios of simple EEFLs in which one-dimensional, density-dependent natural selection acts either antagonistically or synergistically with direct harvest selection on body size. Antagonistic feedbacks favour body-size stasis but erode genetic variability and associated body-size evolvability, and may ultimately impair population persistence and recovery. In contrast, synergistic feedbacks drive fast evolution towards smaller body sizes and favour population resilience, but may have far-reaching bottom-up or top-down effects. We illustrate the further complexities resulting from multiple environmental feedbacks using a co-evolving predator-prey pair, in which case outcomes from EEFLs depend not only on population densities, but also on whether prey sit above or below the optimal predator/prey body-size ratio, and whether prey are more or less evolvable than their predators. EEFLs improve our ability to understand and predict nature’s response to harvesting, but their integration into the research agenda will require a full consideration of the effects and dynamics of natural selection.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • Cite as: Edeline, E. and Loeuille, N. (2021) Size-dependent eco-evolutionary feedbacks in fisheries. bioRxiv, 2020.04.03.022905, ver. 4 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Ecology. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.03.022905

  • This article has been peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Ecology https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100071

  • Version 4 of this preprint has been peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Ecology (https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100071)

  • Glossary

    Absolute fitness
    number of offspring reaching the reproductive stage.
    Evolutionary deterioration
    evolutionary change leading to smaller population densities, thereby increasing its probability of extinction (e.g., due to demographic stochasticity).
    Evolutionary rescue
    adaptive evolutionary change that restores positive growth to declining populations and prevents extinction.
    Evolvability
    trait potential to evolve.
    Fitness landscape
    multidimensional surface depicting fitness as a function of phenotypic traits.
    Relative fitness
    absolute fitness of a given phenotype divided by average absolute fitness of all phenotypes in the population.
    Selection gradient
    Trait-specific slope of the fitness landscape, i.e., holding other traits constant.
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    Size-dependent eco-evolutionary feedbacks in fisheries
    Edeline Eric, Loeuille Nicolas
    bioRxiv 2020.04.03.022905; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.03.022905
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