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Now you see it — now you don't
The dazzling iridescence seen in some hummingbirds1 and tropical butterflies2 arises from natural optical phenomena, the brightest of which originate in nanoscale structures that produce ultra-high reflectivity a...
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Interpretation of experimental data for Poisson's ratio of highly nonlinear materials
The Poisson's ratio of a material is strictly defined only for small strain linear elastic behavior. In practice, engineering strains are often used to calculate Poisson's ratio in place of the mathematically ...
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Fish Biology in Japan: An Anthology in Honour of Hiroya Kawanabe (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes 18. Series Editor (Eugene K. Balon). Edited by M. Yuma, I. Nakamura and K. D. Fausch
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Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology W.J. Matthews
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Behavioural Ecology of Teleost Fishes J.-G.J. Godin (ed.)
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Fish bioenergetics
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The evolution of life histories: Theory and analysis
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The Environment, Organisms and Relationships
A famous poster shows earthrise seen from the moon. The beautiful image of the blue oceans and white clouds emphasizes that, despite its name, Earth is a planet of water. Most of the evolutionary history of li...
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Biotic Factors and the Structure of Fish Communities
The composition of a fish assemblage at a given locality is the result of the operation of a series of filters (Tonn et al., 1990). The process of speciation determines the total complement of species that could ...
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Feeding and Growth
From its food a fish must obtain both macro- and micronutrients (Halver, 1989). The macronutrients are proteins, lipids and to a lesser extent carbohydrates. These macronutrients supply the basic building bloc...
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Applied Ecology of Fishes
Applied ecology is the study of the effects of man’s activities on the distribution and abundance of species of interest. In many cases, the effects on fish populations are the incidental by-products of activi...
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Effects of Abiotic Environmental Identities on Distribution
Fish species have restricted geographical distributions. For some species, this distribution may cover a vast geographical area. Many species of tuna have a transoceanic distribution. Other species are found o...
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Migration, Territoriality and Shoaling in Fishes
Water movements range from the torrential discharges of mountain streams, the crash of waves against a rocky shore, the ebb and flow of the tide over a gently shelving beach to the slow moving currents of the ...
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Life-Histories and Population Dynamics
The diversity shown by fishes in their body shapes, habitats and ways of feeding is matched by the diversity of their life-history patterns (Breder and Rosen, 1966; Balon, 1975). The adaptive significance of b...
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Behavioural Ecology of Sticklebacks
Four problems currently dominate the study of animal ecology. First, electrophoretic studies have shown that natural populations are characterised by high levels of genetic variation, but there is controversy ...
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Energetics of Reproduction
A fish can be viewed as a system that takes an input, food, providing energy and materials, which it ‘maps’ into an output, the progeny (Pianka, 1976). Its biological success is the number of progeny produced ...
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Growth and Production
Growth is the change in size of the fish. It can be measured as growth in length, in weight or in the total energy content of the fish. Although these measures of growth are usually highly correlated, the corr...
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Life-History Strategy in Sticklebacks
Evolution has been likened to an existential game which the players cannot, in the long term, win. Failure is indeed ultimately inevitable, but success is measured by the length of time for which a player can ...
