Noakes / Ward Ecology and ethology of fishes

Proceedings of the 2nd biennial symposium on the ethology and behavioral ecology of fishes, held at Normal, Ill., U.S.A., October 19–22, 1979
1981
ISBN: 978-94-017-1341-2
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 136 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noakes, David L.G.

Ward, J.A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A new stereophotographic technique for analyzing the three dimensional structure of fish schools.- Computer tools for the analysis of schooling.- Facultative schooling behavior in the spottail shiner (Notropis hudsonius): possible costs and benefits.- Effects of alarm substance on schooling in the common shiner (Notropis cornutus, Cyprinidae).- Attraction of zebrafish, Brachydanio rerio, to isolated and partially purified chromatographic fractions.- Reduction of competition between bisexual and unisexual females of Poecilia in northeastern Mexico.- Synchronized maturation and breeding in natural populations of Xiphophorus variatus (Poeciliidae).- Maintenance of female mimicry as a reproductive strategy in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus).- Patterns of parental investment, dispersal and size among coral-reef fishes.- The reproductive behaviour of Aequidens vittatus (Pisces, Cichlidae) in Surinam, South America.- Reproductive tactics of the Asian cichlids of the genus Etroplus in Sri Lanka.- Habitat segregation in a salt marsh among adult sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae).- Factors affecting fish diversity on a temperate reef.- Abstracts.