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Ecology and conservation of fishes /

Written as a stand-alone textbook for students and a useful reference for professionals in government and private agencies, academic institutions, and consultants, Ecology and Conservation of Fishes provides broad, comprehensive, and systematic coverage of all aquatic systems from the mountains to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tyus, Harold M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ecology of fishes : content and scope
  • Aquatic evolution, origins, and affinities
  • Aquatic environment
  • Diversity 1 : chordates to sharks
  • Diversity 2 : teleostomes to bony fishes
  • Diversity 3 : teleosts
  • Radiations, extinctions, and biodiversity
  • Zoogeography of fishes
  • Lotic systems : flowing water and the terrestrial environment
  • Coldwater streams
  • Fishes of warmwater streams and rivers
  • Lentic systems : standing water
  • Fishes of temperate and tropical great lakes
  • Artificial lakes and groundwater reservoirs
  • Estuaries and coastal zone
  • Marine environments, intertidal fishes, and sharks
  • Neritic province and fisheries
  • Oceanic province and epipelagic fishes
  • Deep sea : twilight to the abyss
  • Fitness, morphology, and ecophysiology
  • Energy, metabolism, and growth
  • Adaptation, niche, and species interactions
  • Populations, growth, and regulation
  • Instinct, learning, and social behavior
  • Trophic concept and feeding
  • Reproductive ecology and life history patterns
  • Migration
  • Larval fish
  • Exploitation and fisheries management
  • Conservation of fishes I : crisis and a response
  • Conservation of fishes II : understanding the decline
  • Changes and the future
  • Appendix
  • Glossary.