Keywords:
Estuarine fishes -- Tropics.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (386 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780470694879
Series Statement:
Fish and Aquatic Resources Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=470431
DDC:
597.177/86/0913
Language:
English
Note:
Tropical Estuarine Fishes Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Scope and Definitions -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Defining and classifying estuaries -- 1.3 Tropical and subtropical estuaries -- 1.4 Ecology -- 1.5 Exploitation -- 1.6 Conservation -- 2 The Diversity of Tropical Estuaries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Open estuaries -- 2.2.1 Regional examples -- East Africa -- West Africa -- Asia -- Australasia -- South America -- Central America -- Gulf of Mexico -- 2.3 Estuarine coastal waters -- 2.3.1 Regional examples -- Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia -- Bay of Bengal -- San Miguel Bay, Philippines -- Gulf of Mexico -- West Africa -- 2.4 Blind estuaries -- 2.4.1 Regional examples -- East Africa -- West Africa -- India -- Southeast Asia -- 2.5 Coastal lakes -- 2.5.1 Regional examples -- East Africa -- West Africa -- India -- South America -- Gulf of Mexico -- 2.6 Physical factors influencing the nature of tropical estuaries -- 2.7 Catastrophic events -- 3 Fish Faunas and Communities -- 3.1 Numbers of species and classification -- 3.2 The diversity and pattern of life cycles -- 3.2.1 Estuarine species -- Subtropics -- Tropics -- 3.2.2 Marine migrants -- 3.2.3 Anadromous species -- 3.2.4 Freshwater migrants -- 3.3 Species assemblages -- 3.3.1 Indo-West Pacific -- East Africa -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Australasia -- Estuarine coastal waters of the Indo-West Pacific -- 3.3.2 Tropical East Atlantic -- Ebrie Lagoon, Ivory Coast -- Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria -- Fatala estuary, Guinea -- Comparisons with the east African coast -- Estuarine coastal waters of the Tropical East Atlantic -- 3.3.3 Tropical West Atlantic -- Guaratuba Bay, Brazil -- Tortuguero estuary, Costa Rica -- Sinnamary estuary, French Guiana -- Orinoco system, Venezuela -- Estuarine coastal waters.
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Terminos Lagoon and Campeche Sound, Gulf of Mexico -- Laguna Madre, Texas, USA -- Mississippi delta region, USA -- 3.3.4 Tropical East Pacific -- Rio Claro, Costa Rica -- The coastal lakes of Guerrero State, Mexico -- Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador -- 3.4 Zoogeographic comparisons -- 4 Trophic Ecology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Feeding specialisation or flexibility? -- 4.2.1 Gerreidae -- 4.2.2 Mugilidae -- 4.2.3 Ariidae -- 4.2.4 Sciaenidae -- 4.2.5 Eleotridae -- 4.2.6 Lepidophagy -- 4.3 Ontogenetic changes in diets -- 4.3.1 Sciaenops ocellutus -- 4.3.2 Lates calcarifer -- 4.3.3 Mugilidae -- 4.3.4 Toxotidae -- 4.3.5 Rhabdosurgus holubi -- 4.4 Trophic levels among estuarine fishes -- 4.4.1 Herbivorous fishes -- Partial herbivores -- Herbivorous for part of life history -- Obtaining most of nutrition from plants -- 4.4.2 Iliophagous fishes -- 4.4.3 Meiofauna feeders -- 4.4.4 Macrobenthos feeders -- 4.4.5 Plankton feeders -- 4.4.6 Piscivorous species -- 4.5 Foodwebs -- 4.5.1 Food webs in different types of estuaries -- 4.5.2 Effects of natural and anthropogenic perturbations on food webs -- 5 Reproductive Strategies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Sexual allocation -- 5.2.1 Single sex or hermaphrodite? -- 5.3 Spawning strategies -- 5.3.1 Methods of spawning -- 5.3.2 Spawning stimuli -- Seasonal stimuli -- Proximal stimuli -- 5.3.3 Spawning sites and behaviour -- 5.3.4 Spawning in highly variable or extreme environments -- 5.4 Reproductive characteristics of major taxa -- 5.4.1 Elopiformes -- 5.4.2 Clupeiformes -- Clupeidae -- Engraulididae -- 5.4.3 Ariidae -- 5.4.4 Mugilidae -- 5.4.5 Polynemidae -- 5.4.6 Haemulidae -- 5.4.7 Carangidae -- 5.4.8 Gobiidae -- 5.4.9 Chondrichthys -- 5.5 Ecology of larval fish -- 5.5.1 Composition, diversity and density of ichthyoplankton assemblages -- 5.5.2 Factors affecting recruitment and distribution of larvae.
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6 Effects of Structure and Hydrology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Structure -- 6.2.1 Vegetation -- Mangroves -- Seagrasses -- Reed beds -- Swamp forests -- 6.2.2 Substrata -- 6.3 Salinity -- 6.4 Turbidity -- 6.4.1 Distribution in relation to turbidity -- 6.4.2 The significance of turbidity -- 6.5 Water movements -- 6.5.1 Currents and tidal influences -- 6.5.2 Wave action and turbulence -- 6.6 How important are the various structural and hydrological factors? -- 7 Mangroves and Estuarine Dependence -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The validity of the concept of estuarine dependence -- 7.3 Geographical distribution and evolution -- 7.4 Advantages and disadvantages of an estuarine phase in the life cycle -- 7.4.1 Costs and benefits -- 7.4.2 Predation -- 7.4.3 Food supply -- 7.4.4 Shelter -- 7.5 Estuarine dependency and fisheries production -- 8 Estuarine Fisheries -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Production and productivity -- 8.3 Problems and issues in tropical estuarine fisheries -- 8.4 Types of fisheries -- 8.4.1 Asian fisheries -- The Hilsa fishery, South Asia -- The Lake Chilka fishery, India -- The Pichavaram fishery, India -- The Larut-Matang fishery, Malaysia -- 8.4.2 African fisheries -- The Kosi fishery, South Africa -- The Ebrie Lagoon fishery, Ivory Coast -- 8.4.3 South and Central American fisheries -- The Gulf of Nicoya fishery, Costa Rica -- The Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta fishery, Colombia -- The fisheries of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela -- The Valenca Delta fishery, Brazil -- 8.4.4 Australasian fisheries -- The Barramundi fisheries of Australia and Papua New Guinea -- 8.5 Management -- 8.5.1 Definitions and goals -- 8.5.2 The developing-country situation -- 8.5.3 Community based management -- Asia -- Africa -- Relationships with aquaculture -- 8.5.4 Resource allocation -- 8.5.5 Integrated management -- 9 Effects of Fishing -- 9.1 Introduction.
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9.2 Effects of catching fish -- 9.2.1 Effects on the target species -- Southeast Asia -- West Africa -- 9.2.2 Effects on non-target species -- Southeast Asia -- The Gulf of Carpentaria -- Indian coastal waters -- Southeast Africa -- Australian estuaries -- Effects on charismatic fauna -- 9.2.3 Effects of fish removal on nursery functions -- West Africa -- Southeast Africa -- 9.2.4 Effects of removal of species on trophic structure -- West Africa -- 9.3. Effects of habitat alteration caused by fishing -- 9.3.1. Effects on nursery function by removal or alteration of habitats -- West Africa -- 9.3.2. Effects of reductions in water quality caused by fishing -- 9.4 Extinctions -- 9.5 Solutions? -- 10 Effects of Industry and Agriculture -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Physical changes -- 10.2.1 Effects of dams and weirs -- Obstruction -- Freshwater retention and changes in flow patterns -- 10.2.2 Dredging -- 10.2.3 Mangrove loss -- 10.2.4 Effects of residential canal estates and marinas -- 10.3 Industrial and agricultural effluents -- 10.3.1 Persistent organochlorines -- 10.3.2 Oil and hydrocarbons -- 10.3.3 Trace metals -- 10.3.4 Sewage -- 10.4 Effects of large-scale agriculture -- 10.4.1 Sugar cane -- Effects of sugar cane farming -- Effects of discharges from sugar cane mills -- 10.4.2 Oil palm plantations -- 10.5 Mass mortality of fishes -- 10.5.1 Naturally occurring phenomena -- 10.5.2 Anthropogenic sources of mortality -- 11 Conservation, Rehabilitation and Climate Change -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Threats, costs and benefits -- Dilemmas -- Benefits -- 11.2.1 What is being conserved? -- 11.2.2 Conservation management -- Protected areas -- Indicators -- 11.2.3 Man as part of the ecosystem -- 11.3 Rehabilitation and restoration -- 11.4 Climate change and sea level rise -- References -- Taronomic Index -- Geographic Index -- Subject Index.
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