Overview

Fish populations fluctuate widely in their abundances. Many of the processes influencing recruitment to the adult population or entry into a fishery occur very early in life. The variation in life histories and behaviours of young fish, and the selective processes operating on this variation, ultimately determine the identities and abundances of survivors. This volume focuses on 3 themes of importance in the analysis of the role that fish early life history plays in the number and quality of recruits: relationships between parents, progeny, and their environment; selective processes in the early life history; and contributions of early life history to the understanding of recruitment.

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Author:   R.C. Chambers ,  Edward A. Trippel
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   21
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   2.330kg
ISBN:  

9780412641909

ISBN 10:   0412641909
Pages:   596
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Prologue. Recruitment in fish populations: the paradigm shift generated by ICES Committee A.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The naming of ICES Committee A.- 1.3 The scope of work undertaken by Committee A.- 1.4 The groundfish egg and larval studies of Committee A.- 1.5 Hjort’s new paradigm.- 1.6 Summary of importance of early life history studies on the paradigm shift.- 1.7 Influence of Hjort on recruitment studies between 1914 and 1930.- 1.8 The Canadian Fisheries Expedition.- 1.9 Conclusions.- Acknowledgements.- References.- One Parent-Progeny Relationships.- 2 Effects of adult age and size structure on reproductive output in marine fishes.- 3 Environmental influences on egg and propagule sizes in marine fishes.- 4 Regulation of energy acquisition and allocation to respiration, growth and reproduction: simulation model and example using rainbow trout.- 5 Life history responses to environmental variability in early life.- Two Selective Processes in the Early Life History.- 6 Patterns and consequences of selective processes in teleost early life histories.- 7 The use of field studies to investigate selective processes in fish early life history.- 8 Ontogeny, growth and the recruitment process.- 9 Ontogeny of cannibalism in larval and juvenile fishes with special emphasis on Atlantic cod.- 10 Size-selective predation on juvenile North Sea flatfish and possible implications for recruitment.- 11 Natural selection and the evolution of growth rate in the early life history: what are the trade-offs?.- 12 Predation on juvenile fishes: dynamic interactions between size-structured predators and prey.- 13 Size-based foraging success and vulnerability to predation: selection of survivors in individual-based models of larval fish populations.- Three Contribution of Early Life HistoryStudies to our Understanding of Recruitment.- 14 Compensatory responses to decreased young-of-the-year survival: an individual-based modelling analysis of winter flounder.- 15 Relationships between early life history traits and recruitment among coral reef fishes.- 16 Recruitment variation in fish populations assessed using meta-analysis.- 17 Interannual variability in stage-specific survival rates and the causes of recruitment variation.- 18 The utility of early life history studies and the challenges of recruitment prediction.- Four Conclusions.- 19 Early life history and recruitment: legacy and challenges.- 20 Epilogue. The Three Cavaliers: a discussion from the golden age of Norwegian marine research.- Author index.- Location index.- Species index.

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