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Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish

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  • Morales, Mark M.
  • Fiechter, Jerome
  • Field, John C.
  • Kashef, Neosha S
  • Hazen, Elliott L.
  • Carr, Mark H.

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Spatial and temporal variability in temperature and food availability are key drivers of growth of marine fishes. Growth during the early life stages (ELS's) is tightly coupled to survival, and in turn, can set year-class strength (i.e. annual recruitment) and overall stock productivity of populations and fished stocks. Ontogenetic changes in physiology, dietary preferences, and growth across ELS's can be accounted for within bioenergetics models, but existing models lack resolution within larval and early juvenile stages. We leveraged daily output from a coupled physical-biogeochemical model to force a highly resolved ontogenetic bioenergetics model parametrized for an ecologically important rockfish in the California Current System. Size-at-age predictions closely track empirical growth trajectories of the ELS's. Scenario testing revealed that growth performance is disproportionately driven by changes in temperature compared to food availability. We then expanded the model to incorporate spatial climatological differences in temperature and prey concentration and found that preflexion growth potential is maximized in areas of historical spawning, suggesting the timing and location of reproduction is an adaptive strategy that places larvae in habitat favorable for survival. Growth potential for late-stage larvae (postflexion) is greatest over a broad areal extent, implying that if a particle tracking algorithm was coupled to the bioenergetics model, a wide range of larval dispersal pathways would place postflexion larvae in habitat suitable for rapid growth. Finally, growth potential of pelagic juveniles is maximized over the continental shelf and shelf-break, aligning with high juvenile catch rates from a fisheries-independent survey. In summary, this study (i) serves as a proof of concept that a bioenergetics model with high ontogenetic resolution can reproduce life stage-specific growth trajectories even though the underlying physiology data for model parameterization is imperfect and (ii) can aid future studies aimed at understanding how ecosystem processes interact with ontogenetic growth and changes in year class strength of early life stages of marine fishes.

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  • Morales, Mark M. & Fiechter, Jerome & Field, John C. & Kashef, Neosha S & Hazen, Elliott L. & Carr, Mark H., 2024. "Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 488(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:488:y:2024:i:c:s0304380023003058
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110575
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