Feeding Ecology of Fish
Feeding Ecology of Fish

Author: Shelby D. Gerking

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-04-25

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1483288528

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Feeding Ecology of Fish establishes a comprehensive framework for the variable ecological patterns exemplified by feeding fishes. The author, a former president of the American Fisheries Society, devotes special attention to synthesizing empirical studies in categorizing feeding patterns. This book shows how remarkably adaptable fish can be with regard to selecting food, often from trophic levels not usually occupied. Relying on a thorough literature survey, Feeding Ecology of Fish will be an invaluable reference for both fishery scientists and ecological theorists. - Organization by trophic level - Emphasis on empirical studies - Broad coverage of a diverse field

Food Intake in Fish
Food Intake in Fish

Author: Dominic Houlihan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0470999500

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The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons. For example a thorough knowledge of factors influencing the ingestion of feed can lead to successful manipulation of the rearing environment of cultured fishes, thereby ensuring improved growth performance and feed utilisation, and decreasing the amount of waste (and consequent pollution) per unit of fish produced. This important book, which has arisen out of a European Union COST programme, illustrates how insights into the biological and environmental factors that underlie the feeding responses of fish may be used to address practical issues of feed management. Food Intake in Fish contains carefully edited contributions from internationally recognised scientists, providing a book that is an invaluable tool and reference to all those involved in aquaculture, especially those working in the aquaculture feed industry and scientific personnel in commercial and research aquaculture facilities. This book should also find a place on the shelves of fish biologists and physiologists and as a reference in libraries of universities, research establishments and aquaculture equipment companies.

The Physiology of Fishes, Second Edition
The Physiology of Fishes, Second Edition

Author: David H. Evans

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-10-10

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780849384271

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As in the bestselling first edition, The Physiology of Fishes, Second Edition is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the major areas of research in modern fish physiology. This Second Edition is entirely revised, with 17 of the 18 chapters written by new authors. It also includes four entirely new chapters:

Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities
Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities

Author: Ro McConnell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-02-27

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780521280648

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The result of compiling widely scattered research on fish in tropical rivers, lakes and seas. A comprehensive overview of the ecology of fish communities in freshwater as well as marine environments.

Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology
Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology

Author: Deanna J. Stouder

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13:

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A useful tool for understanding the broad-ranging effects of changing environmental conditions in aquatic ecosystems, Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology links theoretical and practical aspects of fish foraging research. Fish feeding experts share their recent research, filling the gaps between contemporary information and theoretical issues. The twenty essays in this volume examine foraging theory, habitat gradients and landscape ecology, disturbance, and invasive species. Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology integrates recently uncovered information with current techniques to address the many problems involved in the management of fishery resources.

The Ecology of Animal Senses
The Ecology of Animal Senses

Author: Gerhard von der Emde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3319254928

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The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics “matching” the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend to be filtered out, or sacrificed. The individual contributions discuss that the evolution of sensing systems resulted from the necessity to achieve the most efficient sensing of vital information at the lowest possible energetic cost. Matched filters are found in all senses including vision, hearing, olfaction, mechanoreception, electroreception and infrared sensing and different cases will be referred to in detail.