Overview

Dealing with freshwater fish of European waters, this text reviews the conservation status of fish in several countries, as well as research results in genetics, systematics and ecology of more than 20 endangered European fish taxa. Selected examples show the changes in the fish communities of whole catchment areas under human influence in the past.

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Author:   Daniel Hefti ,  Arthur Kirchhofer ,  Daniel R. Muller
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Weight:   0.925kg
ISBN:  

9783764353216

ISBN 10:   376435321
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   December 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

General considerations regarding the decline of species.- Red lists.- Threatened freshwater fishes of Great Britain.- Scottish natural heritage and fish conservation in Scotland.- Endangered freshwater fish in Ireland.- Endangered freshwater fish: The situation in France.- Endangered freshwater fish of Spain.- The Red Data List of the freshwater lampreys (Cyclostomata) and fishes (Pisces) of Slovenia.- Threatened freshwater fish in Hungary.- Vanishing freshwater fish species of Slovakia.- The status of the fish fauna in the Czech Republic.- Endangered fishes of the River Morava (Czech Republic).- Species conservation: Ecology, taxonomy and genetics.- Long-term changes in the fish community of Neusiedler See (Burgenland, Austria).- Natural regeneration of endangered fish populations in the Pilica drainage basin after reducing human impacts.- Fish conservation in Switzerland - three case-studies.- The decline of the European sturgeon Acipenser sturio in the Baltic and North Sea.- Occurrence and distribution of twaite shad (Alosa fallax Lacepede) in the lower Elbe River, Germany.- Rehabilitation of salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Denmark; state, objectives and methods.- The role of natural and artificial propagation on the genetic diversity of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) of the upper Rhone drainage.- Cellulose acetate electrophoresis for screening transferrin polymorphism in brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations.- Decline and conservation of migrating brown trout (Salmo trutta f. lacustris L.) of Lake Constance.- The conservation ecology of Coregonus albula and C. lavaretus in England and Wales, UK.- Gonadal abnormalities in Coregonus peled Gmel. x Coregonus lavaretus L. hybrids, introduced into natural waters.- Threatened populations and conservation of the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus (L., 1758).- Reproduction and habitat preference of the threatened spirlin (Alburnoides bipunctatus Bloch) and soufie (Leuciscus souffia Risso) under laboratory conditions (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).- Distribution of YOY-barbel Barbus barbus (L.) in the River Sieg/Germany.- Drift, habitat choice and growth of the nase (Chondrostoma nasus, Cyprinidae) during early life stages.- Chondrostoma nasus - its reproduction strategy and possible reasons for a widely observed population decline - a review.- Contribution to the knowledge of the distribution and spawning grounds of Chondrostoma nasus and Chondrostoma toxostoma (Pisces, Cyprinidae) in Switzerland.- Spawning grounds of Chondrostoma soetta Bonaparte, 1840 (Cyprinidae) in Southern Switzerland.- The artificial propagation and culture of young weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis L.).- Description of Knipowitschia punctatissima croatica, (Pisces: Gobiidae), a new freshwater goby from Dalmatia, Croatia.- The sculpin of the Lez spring (South France), Cottus petiti (Bacescu and Bacescu - Mester, 1964), one of the most threatened fish species in Europe.- Conservation of samaruc, Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846), (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae), an endemic and endangered species, in the community of Valencia (east Spain).- Workshop reports.- Workshop I: Faunistic surveys and vulnerability assessments.- Workshop II: Conservation of European mudminnow, Umbra krameri.- Workshop III: Management and rehabilitation of habitat of endangered fishes.

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