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Author Secor, David H., 1960- author.

Title Migration ecology of marine fishes / David Hallock Secor
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Hidden Lives of Marine Fish -- Classifying Migration -- What Causes Fish to Migrate? -- Book Organization: Migration Propensities -- Chapter 2 Bird and Fish Migration: Movement Ecology as a Comparative Framework -- Movement in Fluids -- Analysis of Movements and Migration -- Rules of Aggregation -- Schooling and Flocking -- Navigation Capacities -- Summary -- Segue -- Chapter 3 Mating Systems and Larval Dispersal -- Mating Systems -- Embryo and Larval Dispersal
Alignment of Larval Dispersal with Mating SystemsSelective Harvest during Spawning Migrations -- Summary -- Segue -- Chapter 4 Complex Life Cycles and Marine Food Webs: Migrating through Size Spectra -- Marine Food Webs: Big Things Eating Little Things -- Migrating among Size Spectra: Complex Life Cycles -- Marine Ecosystem Patchiness, Transience, and Periodicity -- Life Cycle Schedules -- Schooling through Food Webs -- The Storage Effect -- Summary -- Segue -- Chapter 5 Population Structure: Closed and Open Life Cycles -- Finding Their Way back Home
Life Cycle ClosureOpen Life Cycles -- Metapopulation Theory -- Taking Stock of Population Thinking -- Summary -- Segue -- Chapter 6 Propagating Propensities: Partial Migration -- Conditional Migrations -- Partial Migration Writ Narrow: Genetic Controls -- Evolution of Partial Migration and Ecological Speciation -- Partial Migration Writ Large -- Summary -- Segue -- Recapitulation: Scaling Collective Movements from Fertilization to Speciation -- Chapter 7 Resilience: Contingents for Contingencies -- Resilience Theory
Resilience to Fishing and Climate Change: Uncharted TerritoryCollective Agencies and Biodiversity -- Building Resilience into Populations: The Storage and Portfolio Effects -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Marine fishes -- Migration.
Fishes -- Migration.
NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Fishes -- Migration
Marine fishes -- Migration
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421416137
1421416131
1421416131