Ecology of Marine Fish offers updated reviews of the current knowledge on the ecology of marine fish. This book is an all-inclusive reference on the diversity of marine fish, their behaviors, their role in marine food webs, as well as the human and environmental impacts on marine fish, such as pollutants and climate change. It takes a historical approach to discussing spatial and temporal patterns of fish populations and introduces the changing patterns of the present. Each chapter provides an in-depth review of the science behind marine fish populations and the methodological tools to study them. This book is an excellent resource for anyone in the fisheries sector, including scientists and researchers, fisheries managers, marine resource managers, marine biologists, fish farmers, marine ecologists, policy makers, leaders and regulators, operations researchers, as well as students and faculty studying marine fish ecology.
Table of Contents
1. History of marine fishes ecology2. The diversity and life history patterns of marine fishes
3. Early life stages of marine fishes
4. Fish growth: patterns and modelling
5. Fish movements
6. Trophic ecology of fishes
7. Reproduction of marine fishes
8. Behaviour of marine fishes
9. Methods for estimating the occurrence and abundance of marine fishes
10. Spatial and temporal patterns in the distribution of fishes
11. Modelling fish species richness and abundance
12. Connectivity and genetic structure of marine fish populations
13. The role of fish in marine food webs
14. Assessing functional diversity in marine fish assemblages
15. Main typologies of marine fish communities
16. Habitat degradation
17. Fisheries impacts on marine fish populations
18. Climate change impacts on marine fish populations and communities
19. Conservation of marine fish
20. Restoration of fish habitats, populations and communities
21. Future perspectives in the study of fish ecology
