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The ecology of fishes on coral reefs /

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in part...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Sale, Peter F.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego :
Publication Dates: 1991.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Coral reef fishes > Ecology.
Coral reef ecology.
Marine fishes > Ecology.
NATURE > Fish. > Fish.
SCIENCE > Ichthyology & Herpetology. > Ichthyology & Herpetology. > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Vissen (dierkunde)
Koraalriffen.
Ecologie.
Korallenriff.
Fische.
Tiero kologie
Aufsatzsammlung.
Coral reefs > Fish
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080925516
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in particular. Many of the methodologies that reef fish ecologists use in their studies will be useful to a wider audience of ecologists for the design of their ecological studies. Significant among the impacts of the research on reef fish ecology are the development of nonequilibrium models of community o.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 754 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080925516
0080925510
Index Number: QL620
CLC: Q959.4
Contents: 1. Introduction / Peter F. Sale -- 2. The visual world of coral reef fishes / William N. McFarland -- 3. Reef fishes : their history and evolution / J.H. Choat, D.R. Bellwood -- 4. Trophic relationships of fishes specialized to feed on zooplankters above coral reefs / Edmund S. Hobson -- 5. Fish-seaweed interactions on coral reefs : effects of herbivorous fishes and adaptations of their prey / Mark E. Hay -- 6. The biology of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs / J.H. Choat -- 7. Fish predation and its impact on the invertebrates of coral reefs and adjacent sediments / G.P. Jones, D.J. Ferrell, P.F. Sale.
8. The pelagic stage of reef fishes : the larval biology of coral reef fishes / Jeffrey M. Leis -- 9. Settlement strategies and biogeography of reef fishes / Benjamin C. Victor -- 10. Spatial and temporal patterns in recruitment / Peter J. Doherty -- 11. Postrecruitment processes in the ecology of coral reef fish populations : a multifactorial perspective / G.P. Jones -- 12. Intraspecific variability in social systems of coral reef fishes / Douglas Y. Shapiro -- 13. The role of adult biology in the timing of spawning of tropical reef fishes / D. Ross Robertson -- 14. The use of phenotypic plasticity in coral reef fishes as tests of theory in evolutionary ecology / Robert R. Warner.
15. Geographic variability in the ecology of coral reef fishes : evidence, evolution, and possible implications / R.E. Thresher -- 16. Patterns and processes in the distribution of coral reef fishes / David McB. Williams -- 17. Predation as a process structuring coral reef fish communities / Mark A. Hixon -- 18. Tropical and temperate reef fishes : comparison of community structures / Alfred W. Ebeling, Mark A. Hixon -- 19. Reef fish communities : open nonequilibrial systems / Peter F. Sale -- 20. Coral reef fisheries : effects and yields / Garry R. Russ.

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