EcologybioRxivPreprint
Live fast and die young: walleye populations adapt their life cycle to degraded lakes of the Canadian clay belt.
Patrice Blaney, Pascal Sirois, Martin Bélanger…·Guillaume Grosbois
This study compares walleye populations in degraded and non-degraded lakes, finding that young-of-the-year grow faster in degraded lakes due to abundant zooplankton, but adult mortality compromises population stability.
DOI 10.1101/2025.08.27.672400