Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

Buch | Softcover

740 Seiten

1992 | 2nd ed. 1993
Chapman and Hall (Verlag)
978-0-412-42940-8 (ISBN)

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This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are over 22000 living species of teleosts, including nearly all the fish of importance in commercial fisheries and aquaculture. Teleosts are represented in just about every conceivable aquatic environment from temporary desert pools to the deep ocean, from soda lakes to sub-zero Antarctic waters. Behaviour forms the primary interface between these effective survival machines and their environ ment; behavioural plasticity is the key to the success of the teleost fishes. In the decade before the publication of the first edition of this book (1986) the study of animal behaviour underwent revolutionary changes under the dual impact of the new fields of behavioural ecology and sociobiology. Quantitative, experimentally-verifiable hypotheses about why individual animals behave were formulated for the first time and met with considerable success. Much of the early work in these new fields concentrated on birds and mammals, but material presented in the first edition of this book helped to demonstrate that fish behaviour is not just a simplified version of that seen in birds and mammals. but obeys the same ecological and evolutionary rules. In the five years since the first edition. much of the early theory has matured: optimal solutions to the problems of feeding and mating require subtle trade-offs of energy balance.

One: Bases of Behaviour Introduction.- 1 The genetic basis of fish behavior.- 2 The motivational basis of fish behavior.- 3 Development of behaviour in fish.- Two: Sensory Modalities.- 4 Role of vision in fish behavior.- 5 Underwater sound and fish behavior.- 6 Role of olfaction in fish behavior.- 7 Role of the lateral line in fish behavior.- Three: Behavioural Ecology.- 8 Teleost foraging: facts and theories.- 9 Predation risk and feeding behavior.- 10 Teleost mating behavior.- 11 Williams’ principle: an explanation of parental care in teleost fishes.- 12 Functions of shoaling behaviour in teleosts.- 13 Individual differences and alternative behaviours.- 14 Fish behaviour by day, night and twilight.- 15 Intertidal teleosts: life in a fluctuating environment.- 16 The behavioural ecology of sticklebacks.- 17 Behavioural ecology of cave-dwelling fishes.- Four: Applied Fish Behaviour.- 18 Fish behaviour and fishing gear.- 19 Fish behaviour and the management of freshwater fisheries.- Author index.- Species index.

This book will be a valuable reference for all those interested in animal behavior and workers in fish biology and fisheries. Since the first edition published in 1986, this updated, rewritten second edition provides much more new information. BIOSIS

Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations, black and white; 740 p. 12 illus.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-412-42940-3 / 0412429403
ISBN-13	978-0-412-42940-8 / 9780412429408
Zustand	Neuware