Awards

• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 (United States)

Overview

"Ecologists have long struggled to understand community dynamics. In this groundbreaking book, leading fish ecologists William Matthews and Edie Marsh-Matthews apply long-term studies of stream fish communities to several enduring questions. This critical synthesis reaches to the heart of ecological theory, testing concepts against the four decades of data the authors have collected from numerous warm-water stream fish communities in the central and eastern United States. Stream Fish Community Dynamics draws together the work of a single research team to provide fresh analyses of the short- and long-term dynamics of numerous streams, each with multiple sampling sites. Conducting repeated surveys of fish communities at temporal scales from months to decades, the authors' research findings will fascinate anyone searching for a deeper understanding of community ecology. The study sites covered by this book range from small headwater creeks to large prairie rivers in Oklahoma and from Ozark and Ouachita mountain streams in Arkansas to the upland Roanoke River in Virginia. The book includes* A comparison of all global and local communities with respect to community composition at the species and family level, emergent community properties, and the relationship between those emergent properties and the environments of the study sites* Analyses of traits of individual species that are important to their distribution or success in harsh environments* A review of evidence for the importance of interactions-including competition and predation-in community dynamics of stream fishes* An assessment of disturbance effects in fish community dynamics* New analysis of the short- and long-term dynamics of variation in stream fish communities, illustrating the applicability and importance of the ""loose equilibrium concept""* New analyses and comparisons of spatiotemporal variation in community dynamics and beta diversity partitioning* An overview of the effects of fish in ecosystems in the central and eastern United States The book ends with a summary chapter that places the authors' findings in broader contexts and describes how the ""loose equilibrium concept""-which may be the most appropriate default assumption for dynamics of stream fishes in the changing climate of the future-applies to many kinds of stream fish communities."

Full Product Details

Author:   William J. Matthews (Professor, University of Oklahoma) ,  Edie Marsh-Matthews (Associate Professor and Associate Curator of Fishes, University of Oklahoma)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9781421422022

ISBN 10:   1421422026
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   26 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Preface Chapter 1: Studying Stream Fish Communities Chapter 2: The Stream Fish Community Study SystemsChapter 3: Characterizing the Fish CommunitiesChapter 4: Traits of Species That Influence Community DynamicsChapter 5: Interactions among Species Chapter 6: Disturbance: Weather Extremes, Flood and Drought, and Fish Community DynamicsChapter 7: Temporal Dynamics of Fish Communities and the ""Loose Equilibrium"" ConceptChapter 8: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Stream Fish CommunitiesChapter 9: ""What's it All Mean?"" (Ecosystem Effects)Chapter 10: A Critical Synthesis References Index"

Reviews

Overall, this text offers significant insight from two leading researchers in the field, and will serve as a valuable tool for those individuals who wish to delve further into the research. Essential. * Choice *

Overall, this text offers significant insight from two leading researchers in the field, and will serve as a valuable tool for those individuals who wish to delve further into the research. Essential. * Choice * This book is at once a memoir and love letter to a couple of brilliant research careers, and essential reading for those early-career scientists and others entering the stream fish community ecology topic now, who need to catch up. In both regards, the book is a real pleasure to read. For agency scientists involved in biomonitoring using fishes, and stream restoration, this book should be considered a primer in just how much we do, and do not, understand about the underlying factors that dictate why fishes are where they are. * Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture * In conclusion, Stream Fish Community Dynamics-A Critical Synthesis represents a valuable synopsis of the tremendous scientific careers of Bill and Edie Matthews, careers that will continue to influence generations of future scientists. * Fisheries Magazine *

Overall, this text offers significant insight from two leading researchers in the field, and will serve as a valuable tool for those individuals who wish to delve further into the research. Essential. -Choice This book is at once a memoir and love letter to a couple of brilliant research careers, and essential reading for those early-career scientists and others entering the stream fish community ecology topic now, who need to catch up. In both regards, the book is a real pleasure to read. For agency scientists involved in biomonitoring using fishes, and stream restoration, this book should be considered a primer in just how much we do, and do not, understand about the underlying factors that dictate why fishes are where they are. -Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture In conclusion, Stream Fish Community Dynamics-A Critical Synthesis represents a valuable synopsis of the tremendous scientific careers of Bill and Edie Matthews, careers that will continue to influence generations of future scientists. -Fisheries Magazine Helps us rethink hypotheses about our stream fishes and their relationships to each other and to their habitat, and add context to questions related to climate change. At the end of our careers, we can only hope that our cumulative scientific work will be significant enough to be published as a book like this one. -Brooke E. Penaluna & Ivan Arismendi, Environmental Biology of Fishes

Overall, this text offers significant insight from two leading researchers in the field, and will serve as a valuable tool for those individuals who wish to delve further into the research. Essential. * Choice * This book is at once a memoir and love letter to a couple of brilliant research careers, and essential reading for those early-career scientists and others entering the stream fish community ecology topic now, who need to catch up. In both regards, the book is a real pleasure to read. For agency scientists involved in biomonitoring using fishes, and stream restoration, this book should be considered a primer in just how much we do, and do not, understand about the underlying factors that dictate why fishes are where they are. * Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture * In conclusion, Stream Fish Community Dynamics-A Critical Synthesis represents a valuable synopsis of the tremendous scientific careers of Bill and Edie Matthews, careers that will continue to influence generations of future scientists. * Fisheries Magazine * Helps us rethink hypotheses about our stream fishes and their relationships to each other and to their habitat, and add context to questions related to climate change. At the end of our careers, we can only hope that our cumulative scientific work will be significant enough to be published as a book like this one. -- Brooke E. Penaluna & Ivan Arismendi * Environmental Biology of Fishes *

Author Information

William J. Matthews is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology and the coeditor of Community and Evolutionary Ecology of North American Stream Fishes. Edie Marsh-Matthews is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Oklahoma.

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