Robert J. Wootton

Ecology of Teleost Fishes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Teleost fishes account for nearly half of all known vertebrate species. They have representatives in virtually all aquatic systems and an enormous variety in the ways they live. Moreover, teleost fishes support subsistence and commercial fisheries and aquaculture systems throughout the world.
The second edition of this highly respected book retains the aims and structure of the first edition, emphasizing the responses of individual fish to their environment and the consequences of these responses for the population and community to which the individuals belong.
Fully updated and rewritten, this new edition of Ecology of Teleost Fishes offers a thorough and integrated approach to the area and is essential reading for all students of fish biology and ecology, fisheries science and aquaculture. Fish biologists, fisheries scientists, ecologists and researchers in fish population studies, genetics and aquaculture will also find this book to be an invaluable reference source.

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Produktdetails

• Fish & Fisheries Series 24
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-412-84590-1
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 984g
• ISBN-13: 9780412845901
• ISBN-10: 0412845903
• Artikelnr.: 21984346

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword; Tony J. Pitcher. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to
the First Edition. 1: Introduction. 2: Environmental and Organismic
Constraints. 3: Feeding. 4: Bioenergetics. 5: Use of Time and Space. 6:
Growth. 7: Reproduction. 8: Biotic Interactions: I. Predation and
Parasitism. 9: Biotic Interactions: II. Competition and Mutualism. 10:
Dynamics of Population Abundance and Production. 11: Life-History
Strategies. 12: Fish Assemblages. References. Author Index. Systematic
Index. Subject Index.

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1 Introduction.- 1.1 The diversity of teleost fishes.- 1.2 Defining the problem.- 1.3 Organization of the text.- 1.4 Adaptive response to environmental change.- 1.5 Summary and conclusions.- 2 Environmental and organismic constraints.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Body form and locomotion.- 2.3 Respiration and gill structure.- 2.4 Sensory capacities.- 2.5 Summary and conclusions.- 3 Feeding.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Trophic categories in fishes.- 3.3 Morphological adaptations for feeding.- 3.4 Diet composition.- 3.5 Temporal changes in diet composition.- 3.6 Factors that determine the rate of food consumption.- 3.7 Flexibility in the feeding ecology of fishes.- 3.8 Summary and conclusions.- 4 Bioenergetics.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Structure of an energy budget.- 4.3 Effects of environmental factors on metabolism.- 4.4 Examples of energy budgets.- 4.5 Summary and conclusions.- 5 Use of time and space.- 5.1 Introducton.- 5.2 Methods of studying the use of time and space.- 5.3 Temporal patterns of fish movement.- 5.4 Patterns and movement and the use of space.- 5.5 Summary and conclusions.- 6 Growth.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Definition and measurement of growth.- 6.3 Patterns of growth.- 6.4 Factors affecting growth rates.- 6.5 Endogenous control of growth rates.- 6.6 Modelling the growth of fish.- 6.7 Summary and conclusions.- 7 Reproduction.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Timing of reproduction.- 7.3 The site of reproduction.- 7.4 Allocation of resources to reproduction.- 7.5 Allocation to individual progeny.- 7.6 Unusual reproductive strategies.- 7.7 Summary and conclusions.- 8 Biotic interactions: I. Predation and parasitism.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Predation.- 8.3 Pathogens.- 8.4 Summary and conclusions.- 9 Biotic interactions: II. Competition and mutualism.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2Competition.- 9.3 Mutualism.- 9.4 Summary and conclusions.- 10 Dynamics of population abundance and production.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Defining the population.- 10.3 Estimation of fish abundance.- 10.4 Measures of the rate of population change.- 10.5 Measurement of mortality rates.- 10.6 Patterns of mortality in fish populations.- 10.7 Regulation of fish populations and the stock-recruitment relationship.- 10.8 Models of population growth.- 10.9 Concept of production.- 10.10 Measurement of production.- 10.11 Bioenergetic basis of production.- 10.12 Magnitude of population production.- 10.13 Summary and conclusions.- 11 Life-history strategies.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Evolution of life-history patterns.- 11.3 Cost of reproduction and the consequences.- 11.4 Bioenergetics of life-history patterns.- 11.5 Phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits.- 11.6 Life-history patterns and exploitation.- 11.7 Summary and conclusions.- 12 Fish assemblages.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 General patterns of species diversity.- 12.3 Historical factors in species diversity.- 12.4 Contemporary determinants of species diversity.- 12.5 Examples of fish assemblages.- 12.6 Characteristics of fish assemblages.- 12.7 Community-wide properties.- 12.8 Summary and conclusions.- References.- Species Index.