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Ecotoxicology
This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems. It explores worldwide, regional, and biocompartmentalized topics, bringing forth new points of view on global issues and addressing the increasing diversity and complexity of the ecotoxicological field. It also contains novel information on emerging contaminants, presents bioaccumulation effects on different levels of ecological organization and risk analyses, and discusses novel fields of methodological applications, including key aspects in ecotoxicological and environmental monitoring studies.
Adventures in the Anthropocene
** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 ** We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we’ve made. From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created. These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us – and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future.
Fisheries Review
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Fish Physiology: Behaviour and Physiology of Fish
Traditionally, behaviour and physiology have been considered two separate fields of biology with the majority of available literature focusing on one or the other. Recently the need for a multidisciplinary approach to these topics has been realised, highlighted by some of the sessions to be held at the 2003 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology such as 'regulation of behaviour' and 'mechanisms of behaviour'. The proposed volume aims to bring together these disciplines in a comprehensive review of the available literature. Fish Physiology: Behaviour and Physiology of Fish will be novel in actively bridging these two areas of fish biology together and considerin...
Physiology and Biochemistry of the Fishes of the Amazon
Biology and ecophysiology of fishes of the Amazon. Ecophysiological aspects of Amazonian blackwater litterbank fish communities. Electric signalling and communication in weakly electric fishes (Gymnotiformes) of South America. Reproductive biology of piranhas (Teleostei, Characiformes). Larval development in the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) and the curimatã-pacú (Prochilodus marggravii). Physiological responses to hypoxia and pH changes. Surviving low oxygen levels: Lessons from fishes of the Amazon. Hemoglobin adaptations in Amazonian and temperature fish with special reference to hypoxia, allosteric effectors and functional heterogeneity. Acid excretion in Amazonian fish. The interact...
Biology of Tropical Fishes
Biology of tropical fish. The phosphagen system in vertebrate muscles: new insights. Detrended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA) of electric fish assemblages in the Amazon. Mechanisms of signal analysis in Eigenmannia (Gymnotiformes): the jamming avoidance response and communication. Habitat abundance patterns of fish communities in three Amazonian rainforest streams. Recovery of an Amazonian blackwater fish fauna after extreme drought. The South American lungfish - adaptations to an extreme habitat. Management and diseases of the ornamental fish exported from the Rio Negro basin. Reproductive behaviour and ecology of two species of Cichlid fishes. Feeding habitats of nine cichlids found in Batata Lake (Porto Trombetas, PA, Brazil). Digestibility of seeds consumed by tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum Cuvier, 1818): an experimental approach. Effects of season and arousal state on the novelty response in Gymnotus carapo. Temperature and reproduction in Northern fish. Temperature and responsiveness of teleost melanophores...
Fishes of the Amazon and Their Environment
This book offers a concise view of the interaction of the Amazonian fishes with their environment. The sequence drives the reader from the formation of the Amazon basin and its relationship with fish diversity and variability to the adaptive strategies the fishes have developed to face the environmental heterogeneity of the Amazon. The central part of the book addresses respiratory adjustments to the low oxygen content of the Amazonian waters in all major fish groups. The discussion covers the main anatomical, morphological, physiological and biochemical adjustments in water and air breathing fishes.
