Research Catalog

Title

Tropical fish biology : the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual Symposium held in Southampton, U.K., 13-16 July 1998 / edited by T.E. Langford and J. Langford, and J.E. Thorpe.

Author

Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Annual Symposium (1998 : Southampton, England)

Publication

London ; San Diego : Published for the Fisheries Society of the British Isles by Academic Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Langford, T. E. (Terry E.)
• Langford, J.
• Thorpe, J. E. (John E.)
• McConnell, Ro.

Description

viii, 455 p. : ill., maps, port; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Journal of fish biology. V. 53 (Supplement A)

Subject

• Fishes > Tropics > Congresses
• Fishes > Behavior > Congresses
• Fishes > Behavior > Tropics > Congresses
• Fishes > Ecology > Congresses
• Fishes > Ecology > Tropics > Congresses
• Fishes
• Fishes > Behavior
• Fishes > Ecology
• Tropics

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Journal of fish biology, volume 53, Supplement A, December 1998.
• "Dedicated to R. Lowe-McConnell."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Tropical fishes, patterns and propensities. -- Explosive speciation in cichlid fishes of the African Great Lakes. -- Direct mate choice maintains diversity among sympatric cichlids in Lake Victoria. -- Further examination of female preference for vertical bars in swordtails. -- Phylogenetic relationships among the mollies (Poeciliidae: Poecilia: Mollienesia group). -- The role of extreme iteroparity and risk avoidance in the evolution of mating systems. -- Factors regulating the height of spawning ascents in trunkfishes (Ostraciidae) -- Does male-biased predation lead to male scarcity in viviparous fish? -- Feeding performance of Lake Victoria rock cichlids. -- Fishery-inducted changes in a marine ecosystem, insight from models of the Gulf of Thailand.-- The trophic role of lutjanid fish and impacts of their fisheries in two ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. -- High biomass and production but low transfer efficiency of Caribbean parrotfish. -- Energy flow and network analysis of Terminos Lagoon, SW Gulf of Mexico.
• Spatial and temporal patterns of distribution and abundance of a tropical fish assemblage in a seasonal Sargassum bed, Caro Frio Island, Brazil. -- Relationship between reef fish community structure and environmental variables in the southern Mexican Caribbean. -- Seasonal grazing rates and food processing by tropical herbivorous fishes. -- Trophic models of protected and unprotected coral reef ecosystems in the South of the Mexican Caribbean. -- Variation in posing behaviour among fish species visiting cleaning stations. -- Effects of seasonality and fish movement on tropical river food webs. -- Transport of larval fish in the Amazon. -- Effects of anoxia on the distribution, respiratory strategies and electric signal diversity of gymnotiform fishes.--distribution, respiratory strategies and electric signal diversity of gymnotiform fishes.
• Depauperate freshwater fish communities in Sabah. -- Effects of access restrictions and stocking on small water body fisheries in Laos. -- Impact of flood control schemes on river fish migrations and species assemblages in Bangladesh. -- Interdisciplinary evaluation of the status and health of African lake fisheries using a rapid appraisal technique. -- Conservation genetics of freshwater fish. -- Genetic population structure in the Lake Tanganyika sardine Limnothrissa miodon.

OCLC

• ocm40688501
• 40688501
• SCSB-9610057

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library