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Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology


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This volume is about freshwater fish in streams, lakes, reservoirs and special habitats around the world. It addresses approximately 20 major topics in freshwater fish ecology in a format suitable for use in graduate-level courses. The book focuses on basic ecology and contains much data from fisheries ecology. Dr. Matthews explains the way in which empirical studies, theoretical concepts and experimental evaluations blend into the current state-of-the-art with respect to each major topic and provides original data and interpretations on some points as well as new syntheses. Each chapter contains empirical information, a synthesis and a summary.

Table of Contents:
1. Overview of Fishes and Fish Assemblages.- 1.1 Problems and Approaches in Fish Ecology.- 1.2 Diversity of Fishes and Their Habitats.- 1.3 Questions about Fish Assemblages.- 1.4 Explanations?.- 1.5 Guideposts.- 2. Structure of Fish Assemblages.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Number of Species, Families, and Species per Family.- 2.3 Trophic and Functional Groups, and Predator/Prey Species.- 2.4 Abundance, Body Size, and Mouth Size.- 2.5 Summary.- 3. Discrete Versus Overlapping Assemblages and Assemblage Stability.- 3.1 Discrete Versus Overlapping Assemblages.- 3.2 Stability of Fish Assemblages.- 3.3 Summary.- 4. Stream Ecology and Limnology as Related to Fish Assemblages.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Physical and Chemical Limnology and its Effect on Fish and Fish Assemblages.- 4.3 Lentic Versus Lotic Environments as Fish Habitats.- 4.4 Characteristics of Lakes that Influence Fish Assemblages.- 4.5 Characteristics of Streams that Influence Fish Assemblages.- 4.6 Summary.- 5. Influence of Global toRegional Zoogeography on Local Fish Assemblages.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Global Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes.- 5.3 Subcontinental Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes.- 5.4 Regional Biogeography of Fishes.- 5.5 Merging Concepts of Geological, Zoogeographic, and Basin-Level Effects in Ecological Time.- 6. Physical Factors Within Drainages as Related to Fish Assemblages.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Area Effects at “Drainage” Level.- 6.3 Local Habitat Size.- 6.4 Habitat Structure, Cover, Complexity, and Productivity.- 6.5 Zonation of Fishes in Lakes and Streams.- 6.6 Landscape Ecology: Looking Laterally, Instead of Just Up and Down the Stream?.- 6.7 Multivariate Analyses of Fish Distributions, and Influence of Environmental Variables.- 7. Disturbance, Harsh Environments, and Physicochemical Tolerance.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Definition and Time Scales of Disturbance.- 7.3 Floods.- 7.4 Drought.- 7.5 Physicochemical Stress.- 7.6 Disturbance and Physicochemical Effects: Combined.- 8. Morphology, Habitat Use, and Life History.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Water as a Medium: Fluid Drag.- 8.3 Morphology.- 8.4 Hydraulics, Morphology, Microhabitat, and Food Use.- 8.5 Reproduction and Life History.- 8.6 Movement and Migration.- 9. Interactive Factors: Competition, Mixed Species Benefits, and Coevolution.- 9.1 Interspecific Competition and Resource Partitioning.- 9.2 Intraspecific Competition, Density Effects, and Resource Partitioning.- 9.3 Mixed-Species Effects in Assemblages.- 9.4 Coevolution in Fish Assemblages?.- 10. Interactive Factors: Predation Effects in Fish Assemblages.- 10.1 Predation and a Hypothetical Model.- 10.2 Empirical Studies of Piscivory.- 10.3 Experiments with Piscivore-Prey Systems.- 10.4 Theoretical Aspects of Predation.- 10.5 Conclusions: Effects of Piscivory in Fish Assemblages.- 11. Effects of Fish in Ecosystems.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Direct Effects of Fish in Ecosystems.- 11.3 Planktivory.- 11.4 Herbivory.- 11.5 Nutrient Effects and Ecosystem Engineering.- 11.6 Indirect Effects of Fish in Ecosystems.- 11.7 Keystone Species and Strong Interactors.- Literature Cited.- Taxonomic Index.- Locality Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780412028311
  • Publisher: Chapman and Hall
  • Publisher Imprint: Chapman and Hall
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 756
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 041202831X
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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