Ecology of Teleost Fishes by Robert J. Wootton.

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and the open sea, fish have solved the problems of life in deserts, in the deep sea, in the cold antarctic, and in w...

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Main Author:	Wootton, Robert J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
Edition:	1st ed. 1990.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Ecology . Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:

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
9.2 Competition
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.

Ecology of Teleost Fishes by Robert J. Wootton.

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