Ecology and conservation of Fishes. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Harold M. Tyus.
• Other Names: Tyus, Harold M
• Contents: Use and Features of the Book; List of Greek and Latin Words; ; Introduction; Ecology of Fishes: Content and Scope; History of Ecology; Fish Ecology Explored; What Is a Fish?; Fish: The First Vertebrate; ; Evolutionary Ecology of Fishes; Aquatic Evolution, Origins, and Affinities; Aquatic Evolution; Evolutionary Ecology; Origins and Affinities of Fishes; Paleoecology of Fishes; ; Aquatic Environment; Aquatic Ecosystems; Properties of Water; Seawater; Fish in Water: Where is the Gravity?; ; Fish Diversity; Diversity 1: Chordates to Sharks; Introduction; From Chordate to Vertebrate; Agnathans: Hagfishes and Lampreys; Conodonts and Ostracoderms; Early Gnathostomes; Chondrichthyes; ; Diversity 2: Teleostomes to Bony Fishes; Radiation of Teleostomes; Acanthodians: Spiny Ones; Sarcopterygians: Lobe-Fin Fishes; Actinopterygians: Ray-Fins; ; Diversity 3: Teleosts; Diversity and adaptation; Lower Teleosts; Cods and Anglerfishes; Higher Teleosts; ; Radiations, Extinctions, and Biodiversity; Life on Earth Has Not Been Easy; Fish Extinctions and a Few Questions; Ecological Concepts; Case Study: Fishes of Fossil Lake; ; Freshwater Ecosystems; Zoogeography of Fishes; Patterns and Species Diversity; Factors Affecting Distribution; Adaptation; Continental Movement; Fishes of Zoogeographic Regions; Vicariance Biogeography; Pleistocene Glaciation; The Future; Ecological Concepts; ; Lotic Systems: Flowing Water and the Terrestrial Environment; A Drop of Rain; Flowing Water; Characteristics of Streams; Ecological Concepts; ; Coldwater Streams; Structure and Function; Coldwater Fishes; Constraints on Trout; Case Study: Greenback Cutthroat Trout; ; Fishes of Warmwater Streams and Rivers; A warmwater Fish Viewpoint; The Stream Connected; Stream Fishes; Large River Fish Faunas; Case Study: The North American Paddlefish; ; Lentic Systems: Standing Water; The Drop is Stored (temporarily); Standing Water Ecosystems; Characteristics of Lakes; Structure; Function; Fish in Lakes; Ecological Concepts; Case Study: Lake Baikal; ; Fishes of Temperate and Tropical Great Lakes; General; Fishes of temperate Lakes; Fishes of tropical lakes; Case Study: Cichlids of East African Great Lakes; ; Artificial Lakes and Groundwater Reservoirs; Artificial Lakes: Reservoirs; Structure and Function; Ecological Concepts; Cumulative Effects; Fish and Reservoirs; Groundwater; Case Study: Death Valley and Devils Hole; ; Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems ; Estuaries and Coastal Zone; Coastal Zone; What are Estuaries?; Drowned River Estuaries; Estuarine Fishes; Ecological Concepts; Estuaries as Nutrient Traps; Case Study: Alewives as Migrating Subsystems; ; Marine Environments, Intertidal Fishes, and Sharks; Oceanography and Marine Ecology; Intertidal Zone: Structure and Function; Marine Fishes; Ecological Concepts; Case Study: The Ultimate Marine Predator; ; Neritic Province and Fisheries; Inshore Ocean in Perspective; Pelagic Systems; Benthic Systems; Neritic Fishes and the Temperate Zone; Marine Commercial Fisheries; Case Study: Cod and Northwest Atlantic Groundfishery; ; Oceanic Province and Epipelagic Fishes; Province; Epipelagic Zone; Upwellings; Case Study: Peruvian Anchoveta; ; Deep Sea: Twilight to the Abyss; Features of the Deep Sea and Its Fishes; Mesopelagic Zone; Abyss; Deep Benthic and Benthopelagic; Seamounts; Fish Adaptations in the Deep Sea; Deepwater Fisheries; Case Study: Deep-Sea Anglerfish; Ecological Concepts; ; Fish Adaptation ; Fitness, Morphology, and Ecophysiology; Adaptation and Fitness; Fish Morphology and Ecophysiology; Physicochemical Adaptation with Organs; ; Energy, Metabolism, and Growth; Energy Budgets; Fish Energetics; Metabolism; Growth and Aging; Metabolic Stress; Stress in Fishes; Case Study: Measuring Growth and Age in Hard Tissues; ; Adaptation, Niche, and Species Interactions; Adaptation; The Niche; Niche Overlap and Response; Species Interactions; ; Populations, Growth, and Regulation; Fish Populations in General; Present Status of Fish Populations; Population Characteristics; Population Growth; Population Regulation; Equilibrium/Nonequilibrium; Carrying Capacity Problem; Commercial Exploitation; ; Instinct, Learning, and Social Behavior; Why the Interest in Behavior?; Instinctive Behavior and Innate Mechanisms; Biological Clock (biorhythms); Cognition and Learning; Nonreproductive Social Behavior; Cooperation; Machiavellian Intelligence; How to Study Behavior; Case Study: Behavioral Interactions; ; Trophic Concept and Feeding; Trophic Concept; Trophic Cascade; Feeding adaptations; Food and Selectivity; Foraging Behavior and Theory; Case Study: Prey response—A Matter of Humps?; ; Reproductive Ecology and Life History Patterns; Reproductive Process; Life History Patterns; Reproductive Effort and Energy Allocation; Two Life History Strategies; Reproductive Tradeoffs: R and K Selection and a 3-D Continuum; Case Study: Timing of Spawning; ; Migration; Fish Move, Disperse, and Migrate; Finding the Way Back—Homing; Spawning Migrations; Examples and Descriptions; Oceanadromous Migrations of Atlantic Herring; Case Study: Migration of Colorado Pikeminnow; ; Larval Fish; Introduction and Importance; Reproduction and early Life; Description and Taxonomy; Larval Ontogeny; Larval Fish Ecology; The Niche Revisited; Fisheries Ecology and Recruitment Concepts; Case Study—Larval fish movement; ; Applied Ecology: The Human Factor; Exploitation and Fisheries Management; Introduction; Historic Perspective; Management Practices; Fisheries: Practices and Problems; Concepts of Sustainability; Ecosystem Approach; Case Study: Fish Salvage at Tracy; Future of the Facility; ; Conservation of Fishes I: Crisis and a Response; Introduction; Biodiversity; Biodiversity Crisis; Why are Species Presently Going Extinct?; How many Fish Do We Need?; Species Problem; A Response: The New Conservation; Endangered Fish Recovery?; Case Study: Can Science Save the Salmon?; ; Conservation of Fishes II: Understanding the Decline; Five Causes; Physical Habitat Alteration; Introduced Species; Overfishing; Hybridization; Water Pollution; Are All suspects Guilty?; Case Study: Chesapeake Bay—An Ecological Disaster; ; Changes and the Future; Introduction; Interesting Times; Global Climate; GCC: Effects on Fish and Habitat; Fish and Fisheries in the Future; Welcome to the Twenty-First Century; ; Literature Cited; Glossary; Appendix -- A Guide to Major Fish Groups; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 597; Fishes -- Ecology; Fishes -- Conservation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439897591
• Related ISBNs: 143989759X
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