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Advances In Marine Biology

Sims, D.W.

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Table of contents
  • Contentsvii
  • Contributors to Volume 53Cover
  • Series Contents for Last Ten Yearsix
  • Chapter 1: The Evolutionary Ecology of Offspring Size in Marine Invertebrates1
  • 1. Introduction3
  • 2. How Variable is Offspring Size Within Species?6
  • 2.1. Meta-analysis of the literature6
  • 3. Effects of Offspring Size10
  • 3.1. Fertilization10
  • 3.2. Development13
  • 3.3. Post-metamorphosis21
  • 4. Sources of Variation in Offspring Size28
  • 4.1. Within populations28
  • 4.2. Among populations31
  • 5. Offspring-Size Models32
  • 5.1. Offspring size-number trade-off33
  • 5.2. Offspring size-fitness function36
  • 5.3. Reconciling within-clutch variation38
  • 5.4. Summary of offspring-size models39
  • 6. Summary39
  • 6.1. Planktotrophs40
  • 6.2. Non-feeding42
  • 6.3. Direct developers42
  • 6.4. Ecological implications43
  • 6.5. Evolutionary implications43
  • 6.6. Future research directions45
  • Appendix46
  • Acknowledgements50
  • References50
  • Chapter 2: An Evaluation of the Effects of Conservation and Fishery Enhancement Hatcheries on Wild P61
  • 1. Introduction63
  • 1.1. Scope of the review65
  • 1.2. Motivations and objectives of hatcheries68
  • 1.3. Content overview70
  • 2. Historical Overview of Hatchery Activities71
  • 3. Political Dynamics of Hatchery Programmes78
  • 4. Geographical Extent of Activities84
  • 4.1. Enhancement of indigenous salmonids: Conservation, production and mitigation hatcheries84
  • 4.2. Enhancement of non-indigenous salmon and trout: Introductions99
  • 5. Potential Consequences of Enhancement Activities100
  • 5.1. Genetic risks associated with salmon hatchery programmes100
  • 5.2. Behavioural and ecological interactions between wild and hatchery-produced salmon127
  • 5.3. The effects of harvest on wild salmon populations133
  • 5.4. Disease effects of salmonid enhancement141
  • 6. Economic Perspectives on Hatchery Programmes150
  • 6.1. Measuring costs, effectiveness and benefits151
  • 6.2. Cost-effectiveness of hatchery programmes153
  • 6.3. BCA of hatchery programmes156
  • 6.4. Complicating factors159
  • 6.5. Conclusions160
  • 7. Discussion160
  • 7.1. Release objectives and release sizes161
  • 7.2. Interactions between hatchery and wild fish162
  • 7.3. Economic issues167
  • 7.4. Moving forward: Scientific and social dimensions168
  • 7.5. Conclusions169
  • Acknowledgements170
  • References170
  • Chapter 3: The Social Structure and Strategies of Delphinids: Predictions Based on an Ecological Fra195
  • 1. Biological Pressures on Social Strategies197
  • 1.1. Why do animals form groups?199
  • 1.2. Definitions and levels of grouping200
  • 1.3. What are social strategies?201
  • 1.4. How does ecology influence social strategies?204
  • 2. Dolphin Ecology205
  • 2.1. Distribution and habitat205
  • 2.2. Predation and predatory risk208
  • 2.3. Foraging behaviour and diet215
  • 2.4. Ranging patterns and daily movements218
  • 2.5. Socioecology219
  • 3. Resident Communities223
  • 3.1. Inshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)225
  • 3.2. Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)231
  • 3.3. Comparisons with terrestrial mammals236
  • 4. Wide-Ranging Communities239
  • 4.1. Eastern Tropical Pacific dolphins (Delphinus and Stenella sp.)241
  • 4.2. Coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)243
  • 4.3. Dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)246
  • 4.4. Comparisons with terrestrial mammals251
  • 5. Intermediate-Ranging Patterns253
  • 5.1. Humpback dolphin (Sousa sp.)254
  • 5.2. Killer whales (Orcinus orca)259
  • 5.3. Comparisons with terrestrial mammals265
  • 6. Demographic, Social and Cultural Influences267
  • 7. Comparisons with Other Cetaceans268
  • 7.1. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)269
  • 7.2. Northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus)271
  • 7.3. Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)272
  • 7.4. Why are there no long-term bonds in baleen whales?273
  • 8. Conservation Implications274
  • 9. Concluding Comments276
  • Acknowledgements278
  • References278
  • Taxonomic Index295
  • Subject Index299
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780123741196
  • ISBN-13 9780080553696
  • Author Sims, D.W.
  • Category Science
  • Subject Environmental Science

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Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by David W. Sims (Marine Biological Association, UK), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics which will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of Calanoid Copepods and Restocking and Stock Enhancement of Marine Invertebrate Fisheries.

* New information on the offspring size in marine invertebrates
* Discusses important information on the social structure and strategies of delphinids
* More than 250 pages of the latest discoveries in marine science