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Edited By Suzanne Currie, David H. Evans
September 08, 2020
The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology, collecting up-to-date research into an easy-to-access single textbook. Written by the leaders in the field, it provides a comprehensive, accessible review of the core topics, integrating ...
Edited By Stephen T. Szedlmayer, Stephen A. Bortone
December 05, 2019
Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus, is an important commercial and recreational fish species and there has been much interest in maintaining its status among a variety of scientific, social and economic levels. Stocks are influenced by varying environmental conditions, changing fishing effort and ...
Edited By Jeffrey C Carrier, Michael R. Heithaus, Colin A. Simpfendorfer
September 18, 2018
Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development, refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology. These have given new insight into the fields of shark genetics, feeding, foraging, bioenergetics, imaging, age and growth, ...
Edited By Michael A. Castellini, Jo-Ann Mellish
December 11, 2015
Suppose you were designing a marine mammal. What would you need to think about to allow it to live in the ocean? How would you keep it warm? What would you design to allow it to dive for very long periods to extreme depths? Where would it find water to drink? How would you minimize the cost of ...
Edited By Susan L. Edwards, Gregory G. Goss
September 14, 2015
With over 70 species still populating the world’s oceans after approximately 500 million years, hagfishes are essential benthic organisms that play a vital role in understanding the evolutionary origins of vertebrate life and the maintenance of the oceanic ecosystem. Hagfish Biology is a long ...
Edited By J. Brian Alford, Mark S. Peterson, Christopher C. Green
October 29, 2014
At an increasingly global scale, aquatic scientists are heavily entrenched in understanding the fate of marine ecosystems in the face of human-altered environments. Oil spill disasters, especially large-scale ones like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon tragedy, have left uncertain and indelible marks on ...
Edited By Jeanette Wyneken, Kenneth J. Lohmann, John A. Musick
March 25, 2013
Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the areas of physiology, behavior, genetics, and health. Volume III presents timely coverage of emerging areas as well as the ...
Edited By Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus
April 09, 2012
Virtually every area of research associated with sharks and their relatives has been strongly impacted by the revolutionary growth in technology. The questions we can now ask are very different than those reported even two decades ago. Modern immunological and genetic techniques, satellite ...
Edited By Stephen A. Bortone, Frederico Pereira Brandini, Gianna Fabi, Shinya Otake
May 09, 2011
While artificial reefs may have much to offer, they remain an anecdote in the greater scheme of fisheries management, primarily due to the lack of data specific to validating their use. Based on papers presented at the 9th Conference on Artificial Reefs and Artificial Habitats (CARAH) and also ...
Edited By Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus
March 09, 2010
Since the award-winning first volume, The Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, published in 2004, the field has witnessed tremendous developments in research, rapid advances in technology, and the emergence of new investigators beginning to explore issues of biodiversity, distribution, physiology...
Edited By Elsa Cabrita, Vanesa Robles, Paz Herraez
August 22, 2008
The large amount of information on fish reproduction available is not always readily accessible to all interested parties. Written to appeal to aquaculturalists, conservation managers, and scientific researchers, Methods in Reproductive Aquaculture provides an overview of available techniques and ...
Edited By Sara Ostlund-Nilsson, Ian Mayer, Felicity Anne Huntingford
December 15, 2006
Highlighting the growing importance of the sticklebacks as a model species in emerging fields such as molecular genetics, genomics, and environmental toxicology, Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback examines data from researchers who use studies of the stickleback to address a wide range of ...