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This is an intergrated approach in which the author uses the theoretical framework that has been developed by animal ecologists over recent years to synthesize empirical studies on the ecology of teleost fishes. Using recent information concerning important theoretical advances in the areas of growth and bioenergetics, demography, life history strategy and community structure, the author describes and analyses field and experimental studies of the ecology of a wide range of important fish species.

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Author:   Robert J. Wootton
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1990 ed.
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780412317309

ISBN 10:   0412317303
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   November 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780412642005
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The diversity of teleost fishes; defining the problem; organization of the text; adaptive response to the environmental change. Environmental and organismic constraints: body form and locomotion, respiration and gill structure, sensory capacities. Feeding: trophic categories in fishes, morphological adaptions for feeding, diet composition, temporal changes in diet composition, factors that determine the rate of food consumption, flexibility in the feeding ecology of fishes. Bioenergetics: structure of an energy budget, effects of environmental factors on metabolism, examples of energy budgets. Use of time and space: methods of studying the use of time and space, temporal patterns of fish movement, patterns of movement and the use of space. Growth: definition and measurement of growth, patterns of growth, factors affecting growth rates, modelling the growth of fishes. Reproduction: timing of reproduction, the site of reproduction, allocation of resources to reproduction, allocation to individual progeny, unusual reproductive strategies. Biotic interactions 1 predation and parasitism: predation, pathogens. Biotic interactions 11 competition and mutualism. Dynamics of population abundance and production: defining the population, estimation of fish abundance, measures of the rate of population change, measurement of mortality rates, patterns of mortality in fish populations, regulation of fish populations and the stock recruitment relationship, models of population growth, concept of production, measurement of production, bioenergetic basis of production, magnitude of population production. Life-history strategies: evolution of life-history patterns, cost of reproduction and the consequences, bioenergetics of life-history patterns, phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits, life-history patterns and exploitation. Fish assemblages: general patterns of species diversity, historical factors in species diversity, contemporary determinants of species diversity, examples of fish assemblages, community-wide properties.

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