Research Catalog

Title

Rhythmic activity of fishes / edited by J.E. Thorpe.

Publication

London ; New York : Academic Press, 1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thorpe, J. E. (John E.)
• Fisheries Society of the British Isles.

Description

x, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Fishes > Physiology > Congresses
• Fishes > Behavior > Congresses
• Biological rhythms > Congresses
• Circadian rhythms
• Circadian Rhythm
• Circadian rhythms
• Biological rhythms
• Fishes > Behavior
• Fishes > Physiology
• Fische
• Fishes > Behavior
• Poissons > Physiologie > Congrès
• Poissons > Moeurs et comportement > Congrès
• Rythmes biologiques > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium organized by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles and held at the University of Stirling, July 4-8, 1977.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Locomotor activity of fish and environmental oscillations / K. Müller -- Pineal and some pituitary hormone rhythms in fish / A.J. Matty -- Rhythms of reproduction in teleost fish / R. Billard and B. Breton -- An interpretation of some endocrine rhythms in fish / T.H. Simpson -- Nocturnalism versus diurnalism; dualism within fish individuals / L.-O. Eriksson -- The flexibility of the circadian system of fish at different latitudes / K. Müller -- Annual cycles in the light environments and visual mechanisms of fishes / W.R.A. Muntz and A.W. Wainwright -- Comparative aspects of the activity rhythms of tautog, Tautoga onitis, bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, and Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus, as related to their life habits / B.L. Olla and Anne L. Studholme -- Behavioural and physiological rhythms of fish in their natural environment, as indicated by ultrasonic telemetry of heart rate / I.G. Priede -- Developmental changes in the activity rhythms of the plaice (Pleuronectes platessa, L.) / R.N. Gibson, J.H.S. Blaxter and S.J. de Groot -- Times of annual spawning and reproductive strategies in Amazonian fishes / Horst O. Schwassmann -- Lunar and tidal rhythms in fish / R.N. Gibson -- On rhythms of fish behaviour / B.P. Manteifel, I.I. Girsa and D.S. Pavlov -- Locomotor activity in whitefish-shoals (Coregonus lavaretus) / K. Müller -- Activity rhythms in gymnotoid electric fishes / Horst O. Schwassmann -- The significance of locomotor and feeding rhythms in the regulation of population biomass and production of the upland bully, Philypnodon breviceps Stokell / D.J. Staples -- A review of sonar techniques for counting fish / H. Braithwaite -- Electrical resistivity fish counters / D. Simpson -- A review of biotelemetry techniques using acoustic tags / R.B. Mitson -- Summary of symposium on "Rhythmic Activity in Fish" / J.H.S. Blaxter -- List of short papers also read at the symposium.

ISBN

• 0126906505
• 9780126906509

LCCN

78052096

OCLC

• ocm04578183
• 4578183
• SCSB-295965

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library