What do we know about the causes and consequences of salmonid social hierarchies from laboratory experiments?

Authors

Lewis Eaton, University of Plymouth

Document Type

Literature Review

Abstract

The main focus of this review will be to examine the current understanding of the causes and consequences of salmonid hierarchies as well as the implications to wild populations and aquaculture. Salmonid dominance hierarchies readily form under laboratory conditions, this has allowed extensive research into social structures. There is limited research into the causes of social status, however, the cause is likely to be a combination of standard metabolic rate, body size and prior competitive experience. A wide range of research outlines the consequences of social status from behavioural changes in aggression and submission to physiological changes in disease resistance, the stress response of fish, responsiveness to additional stressors and varied growth rates to name just a few

Publication Date

2011-07-01

Publication Title

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

400

Last Page

412

ISSN

1754-2383

Deposit Date

May 2019

Embargo Period

2024-07-03

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/13941

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Eaton, Lewis (2011) "What do we know about the causes and consequences of salmonid social hierarchies from laboratory experiments?," The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol4/iss1/11