“…Such a pattern could be due to the additional energy mobilization towards spawning after maturation (Kraffe et al, 2008), which would increase oxygen demand, and/or to reduced reserves for aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms under hypoxia (Brokordt et al, 2015). The higher proportion of juveniles after mass mortalities in the years 1995 to 2014 in the natural bed of Lobos de Tierra Island (south of Sechura, Flores-Valiente et al, 2019) would agree with a higher tolerance of small-sized scallops to environmental stressors. In fine, smaller body size would be an outcome to global warming and deoxygenation of seawater (Baudron, Needle, Rijnsdorp, & Tara Marshall, 2014;Daufresne, Lengfellner, & Sommer, 2009;Gardner, Peters, Kearney, Joseph, & Heinsohn, 2011).…”