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  • The relationship between offspring size and fitness: integrating theory and empiricism 

    Rollinson, Njal, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. 2013. "The relationship between offspring size and fitness: integrating theory and empiricism." Ecology 94(2): 315-324.
    How parents divide the energy available for reproduction between size and number of offspring has a profound effect on parental reproductive success. Theory indicates that the relationship between offspring size and ...

  • Relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in the wild in endangered salmon 

    Houde, Aimee L. S., Dylan J. Fraser, Patrick O'Reilly, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. 2011. "Relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in the wild in endangered salmon." Evolutionary Applications 4(5): 634-647.
    Conservation biologists routinely face the dilemma of keeping small, fragmented populations isolated, wherein inbreeding depression may ensue, or mixing such populations, which may exacerbate population declines via ...

  • Response: on the consequences of sexual selection for fisheries-induced evolution 

    Hutchings, Jeffrey A., and Sherrylynn Rowe. 2008. "Response: on the consequences of sexual selection for fisheries-induced evolution." Evolutionary Applications 1(4): 650-651.
    No abstract available.

  • Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada 

    Myers, RA, JA Hutchings, and NJ Barrowman. 1997. "Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada." Ecological Applications 7(1): 91-106.
    In 1993, six Canadian populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) had collapsed to the point where a moratorium was declared on fishing. It has been argued that the collapses were caused by poor recruitment of cod to the ...