1st Edition

Environmental Sex Differentiation in Fish

By T. J. Pandian Copyright 2015
314 Pages
by CRC Press

314 Pages
by CRC Press

314 Pages
by CRC Press

Fish constitute an important natural renewable resource and any reduction in their ability to propagate as a result of human interference may have significant socioeconomic consequences. The negative effect of human activity on sex differentiation and reproductive output in fish is so diverse that it has been difficult to encompass it in a single book. This book serves as the first attempt to do... Read more

Introduction. Overexploitation by fisheries. Aquaculture and crowding. Endocrine disruption. Hypoxia and anoxia. pH and precipitation. Temperature and sex ratio. Climate change and differentiation. Conservation. Labile period and new hypothesis. Author index. Species index. Subject index.

Biography

T. J. Pandian