Trade-offs between size and energy reserves reflect alternative strategies for optimizing larval survival potential in rockfish

Abstract

In this trade-off, size is generally assumed to provide a valid index of fitness, encompassing additional offspring traits of growth, condition, and survival; numerous examples across a broad range of taxa support this assumption (Roff 1992, but see McEdward & Morgan 2001). However, there are other dimensions to offspring fitness besides absolute size, and different