Shrinking fish: comparisons of prehistoric and contemporary salmonids indicate decreasing size at age across millennia
A comparison of Upper Palaeolithic and contemporary salmonid vertebrae from the Iberian Peninsula indicates that there has been a significant decrease in the mean body size for a given age among Atlantic salmon and brown trout inhabiting the southernmost range of their endemic distribution. Mean siz...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.140026 |