Recent advances in animal tracking reveal that many species display irregular movements
that do not fall into classical categories of movement patterns such as range residency or …

Specific dynamic action (SDA) is the term used to refer to the increased metabolic
expenditure that occurs in postprandial animals. Postprandial increases in metabolism were …

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has
evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and …

Fish Pathology is the definitive, classic and essential book on the subject, providing in-depth
coverage across all major aspects of fish pathology. This new, fully updated and expanded …

Worldwide, urbanization leads to tremendous anthropogenic environmental alterations,
causing strong selection pressures on populations of animals and plants. Although a key …

Rates of clearance, ingestion, ammonia excretion, respiration and egg production were
measured in food-acclimated (0 to 1700 WC 1-l) planktonic copepods Acartia tonsa in …

Explore the fascinating world of the threespine stickleback in A Functional Biology of
Sticklebacks, a compelling synthesis of empirical research and theoretical ecology. This …

Feed intake (FI), feed efficiency (FE), protein efficiency ratio (PER) and weight gain (WG) of
juvenile channel catfish initially weighing 15.0±0.23 g (10–12 cm initial total length) were …

First published in 1993, The Biology of the Southern Ocean has been referred to as
international research at its best and an invaluable reference. Drawing on the considerable …

Fish larvae are the world's smallest vertebrates, and their high rates of mortality may be
partially owing to a very limited aerobic scope. Unfortunately, however, no complete …