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SUBMITTER: Heermann L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484486 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heermann Lisa L DeAngelis Donald L DL Borcherding Jost J
PloS one 20170626 6
Usually, the origin of a within-cohort bimodal size distribution is assumed to be caused by initial size differences or by one discrete period of accelerated growth for one part of the population. The aim of this study was to determine if more continuous pathways exist allowing shifts from the small to the large fraction within a bimodal age-cohort. Therefore, a Eurasian perch population, which had already developed a bimodal size-distribution and had differential resource use of the two size-co ...[more]