Sammendrag
Climate-induced plasticity in functional traits has received recent attention due to the immense
importance phenotypic variation plays in population level responses. Here, we explore the efect of
diferent climate-change scenarios on lentic populations of a freshwater ectotherm, the brown trout
(Salmo trutta L.), through climate efects on functional traits. We frst parameterize models of climate
variables on growth, spawning probability and fecundity. The models are utilized to inform a dynamic
age-structured projection matrix, enabling long-term population viability projections under climate
and population density variation. Ambient temperature and winter conditions had a substantial efect
on population growth rate. In general, warmer summer temperatures resulted in faster growth rates
for young fsh but ended in smaller size at age as fsh got older. Increasing summer temperatures also
induced maturation at younger age and smaller size. In addition, we found efects of frst-year growth
on later growth trajectories for a fsh, indicating that environmental conditions experienced the
frst year will also infuence size at age later in life. At the population level, increasing temperatures
average (up to 4 °C increase in areas with mean summer temperature at approximately 12 °C) resulted
in a positive efect on population growth rate (i.e. smaller but more fsh) during climate simulations
including increasing and more variable temperatures.
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