Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

ISBN-13: 9780412429408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 740 str.

T. J. Pitcher; Tony J. Pitcher; T. Pitcher

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Preface. Part One: Bases of behaviour. Genetic basis of fish behaviour - R G Danzman, M M Ferguson qand D L G Noakes; Motivationalbasis of fish behaviour - P Colgan; Development of behaviour in fishes - F A Huntingford; Part Two: Sensory Modalities. Role of vision in fish behaviour - D M Guthrie and W R A Muntz; Underwater sound and fish behaviour - A D Hawkins; Role of olefaction in fish behaviour - J Hara; Role of the lateral line in fish behaviour - H Bleckman; Part Three: Behavioural ecology. Teleost foraging: facts and theories - P J B Hart; Predation risk and feeding behaviour - M Milinski; Teleost mating behaviour - G F Turner; Williams' principle: an explanation of parental care in teleost fishes - R C Sargent and M R Gross; Functions of shoaling behaviour - T J Pitcher; Individual differences and alternative behaviour - A E Magurran; Fish behaviour by day, night and twighlight - G S Helfman; Intertidal teleosts: life in a fluctuating environment - N R Gibson; Behavioural ecology of sticklebacks - G J FitzGerald and R J Wootton; Behavioural ecology of cave-dwelling fishes - J Parzefall; Part Four: Applied fish behaviour. Fish behaviour and fishing gear - C S Wardle; Fish behaviour and the management of freshwater fisheries - K O'Hara. Indexes.