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• ISBN: 0126151806
• ISBN: 9780126151800
• ISBN: 0126151814
• ISBN: 9780126151817
• Physical Description: xviii, 754 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1991.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction / Peter F. Sale -- 2. The visual world of coral reef fishes / William N. McFarland -- 3. Reef fishes : their history and evolution / J.H. Choat, D.R. Bellwood -- 4. Trophic relationships of fishes specialized to feed on zooplankters above coral reefs / Edmund S. Hobson -- 5. Fish-seaweed interactions on coral reefs : effects of herbivorous fishes and adaptations of their prey / Mark E. Hay -- 6. The biology of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs / J.H. Choat -- 7. Fish predation and its impact on the invertebrates of coral reefs and adjacent sediments / G.P. Jones, D.J. Ferrell, P.F. Sale.

8. The pelagic stage of reef fishes : the larval biology of coral reef fishes / Jeffrey M. Leis -- 9. Settlement strategies and biogeography of reef fishes / Benjamin C. Victor -- 10. Spatial and temporal patterns in recruitment / Peter J. Doherty -- 11. Postrecruitment processes in the ecology of coral reef fish populations : a multifactorial perspective / G.P. Jones -- 12. Intraspecific variability in social systems of coral reef fishes / Douglas Y. Shapiro -- 13. The role of adult biology in the timing of spawning of tropical reef fishes / D. Ross Robertson -- 14. The use of phenotypic plasticity in coral reef fishes as tests of theory in evolutionary ecology / Robert R. Warner.

15. Geographic variability in the ecology of coral reef fishes : evidence, evolution, and possible implications / R.E. Thresher -- 16. Patterns and processes in the distribution of coral reef fishes / David McB. Williams -- 17. Predation as a process structuring coral reef fish communities / Mark A. Hixon -- 18. Tropical and temperate reef fishes : comparison of community structures / Alfred W. Ebeling, Mark A. Hixon -- 19. Reef fish communities : open nonequilibrial systems / Peter F. Sale -- 20. Coral reef fisheries : effects and yields / Garry R. Russ.

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Coral reef fishes > Ecology.
Marine fishes > Ecology.