Biology Of Parrotfishes

Author : Andrew S. Hoey,Roberta M. Bonaldo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351644358

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Biology of Parrotfishes by Andrew S. Hoey,Roberta M. Bonaldo Pdf

Parrotfish are found on almost every coral reef in the world. This ubiquity and uniqueness of their feeding action make them one of the most important groups of fishes within coral reef ecosystems. But why, exactly, are parrotfish so important to reefs? Can the evolution of a particular jaw morphology and feeding action really have had such a large impact on the health and functioning of the world's coral reefs? This book introduces the reader to this fascinating group of fishes (Labridae, Scarinae), from the morphological innovation of a jaw that has the power to bite through solid calcium carbonate, to the threats currently faced by parrotfish populations around the world. It contains new insights into their diet and food processing ability, and lifehistories, and concludes with an overview of emerging and future research directions.

Author : Andrew S. Hoey,Roberta M. Bonaldo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781482224023

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Biology of Parrotfishes by Andrew S. Hoey,Roberta M. Bonaldo Pdf

Parrotfish are found on almost every coral reef in the world. This ubiquity and uniqueness of their feeding action make them one of the most important groups of fishes within coral reef ecosystems. But why, exactly, are parrotfish so important to reefs? Can the evolution of a particular jaw morphology and feeding action really have had such a large impact on the health and functioning of the world's coral reefs? This book introduces the reader to this fascinating group of fishes (Labridae, Scarinae), from the morphological innovation of a jaw that has the power to bite through solid calcium carbonate, to the threats currently faced by parrotfish populations around the world. It contains new insights into their diet and food processing ability, and lifehistories, and concludes with an overview of emerging and future research directions.

Author : Andrew Scott Hoey,David Roy Bellwood,Roberta Martini Bonaldo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1482224011

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The Biology and Ecology of Parrotfishes by Andrew Scott Hoey,David Roy Bellwood,Roberta Martini Bonaldo Pdf

Parrotfishes (subfamily Scarinae, family Labridae), named for their brightly colored bodies and beaklike jaw, are a unique group of marine fishes that have captured the attention of researchers, conservationists and the general public worldwide. This book brings together the world's leading authorities on the evolution, biology, ecology, fisheries and conservation of parrotfishes. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive summary of the research conducted on this unique group of fishes and highlights emerging topics and future direction.

Author : Harms-Tuohy, C.A.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789251354018

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Parrotfishes in the Caribbean: A regional review with recommendations for management by Harms-Tuohy, C.A. Pdf

Parrotfishes are caught primarily by fish traps and spearfishing (targeted and incidental) for personal and commercial consumption. Over half (65 percent) of the responding countries and overseas territories indicated that they have either a complete harvesting ban or fishing regulations in place to promote the protection of parrotfishes to some extent. About half (56 percent) of the responding countries have fishery-independent surveys for parrotfishes, but the metrics evaluated by these surveys are not the same. Similarly, parrotfish-related outreach and education was varied throughout the Caribbean. Twelve countries (32 percent) report having specific parrotfish outreach campaigns or materials, while in other countries campaigns and materials were geared towards marine conservation in general. Most countries agree that long-term protection for parrotfishes is critical, but consensus about the specific measures required to achieve this is lacking.

Author : Leonard Peter Schultz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258345498

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Review of the Parrotfishes by Leonard Peter Schultz Pdf

United States National Museum, Bulletin 214.

Author : G. Lynn Wingard,Chris Schneider,Gregory P. Dietl ,Damien Fordham
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832550854

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Integrating Conservation Biology and Paleobiology to Manage Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World by G. Lynn Wingard,Chris Schneider,Gregory P. Dietl ,Damien Fordham Pdf

Policy makers and resource managers must make decisions that affect the resilience and sustainability of natural resources, including biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, these decisions are often based on evidence or theory derived from highly altered systems and over short time periods of low-magnitude environmental and climatic change. Because natural systems change and evolve across multiple timescales from instantaneous to millennial, long-term understanding of how past life has responded to perturbations can inform resource managers. By using these natural laboratories of the past, conservation paleobiology and paleoecology provide the framework necessary to anticipate and plan for future changes. The goal of this Research Topic is to heighten awareness among conservation and restoration practitioners to the value and applications of long-term perspectives provided by conservation paleobiology and paleoecology. Most conservation studies focus on systems already impacted by anthropogenic change; these studies would benefit from paleontological data through expanded temporal scales, identification of baselines, and an understanding of how organisms have responded to past changes. However, resource management decisions rarely include input from paleontologists, and paleoecological research is rarely incorporated into conservation decision-making. We seek to bridge this research-implementation gap by highlighting the application of paleoecological data to issues such as biodiversity dynamics, extinction risks, and resilience to perturbations, among other topics. We hope to foster new cross-disciplinary synergies by encouraging conservation scientists and managers to collaborate with paleontologists to improve conservation decision-making and by increasing awareness among paleontologists to the needs of the resource management community. This Research Topic will provide a forum for both the paleontological and resource management communities to exchange ideas that will enhance restoration and conservation decision-making. We invite papers on conceptual advances, reviews of specific topics to guide efforts in research or practice, case studies of successful applications, articles describing datasets with applied value, and perspective papers summarizing a body of paleontological research with relevance to the resource management community. Topics can include but are not limited to: • Responses of species, communities, and ecosystems to perturbations • Strategies to achieve the direct integration of paleobiology and paleoecology into on-ground resource management • Identifying baselines and reference conditions • Increasing the robustness of forecasting models through the incorporation of paleontological data • Identifying key species, interactions, and other phenomena as indicators of impending change • New methodologies, analytical tools, and/or proxies in the application of paleontological data to conservation and restoration practice Lynn Wingard, Damien Fordham, and Greg Dietl have no conflicts of interest. Chris Schneider has a potential conflict of interest where manuscripts pertain to stakeholders in the petroleum industry, as she is an independent contractor in the Alberta Oil Sands mining area.

Author : R.N. Hughes,D.J. Hughes,I.P. Smith
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781482220667

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Oceanography and Marine Biology by R.N. Hughes,D.J. Hughes,I.P. Smith Pdf

Ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and their relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the results of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review has catered to this demand since its founding by the late Harold Barnes fifty years ago. Its objective

Author : Walter M. Goldberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226925370

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The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms by Walter M. Goldberg Pdf

Reefs provide a wealth of opportunity for learning about biological and ecosystem processes, and reef biology courses are among the most popular in marine biology and zoology departments the world over. Walter M. Goldberg has taught one such course for years, and he marshals that experience in the pages of The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms. Goldberg examines the nature not only of coral reefs—the best known among types of reefs—but also of sponge reefs, worm reefs, and oyster reefs, explaining the factors that influence their growth, distribution, and structure. A central focus of the book is reef construction, and Goldberg details the plants and animals that form the scaffold of the reef system and allow for the attachment and growth of other organisms, including those that function as bafflers, binders, and cementing agents. He also tours readers through reef ecology, paleontology, and biogeography, all of which serve as background for the problems reefs face today and the challenge of their conservation. Visually impressive, profusely illustrated, and easy to read, The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms offers a fascinating introduction to reef science and will appeal to students and instructors of marine biology, comparative zoology, and oceanography.

Author : S. J. Hawkins,A. L. Allcock,A. E. Bates,L. B. Firth,I. P. Smith,S. Swearer,A. Evans,P. Todd,B. Russell,C. McQuaid
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000163599

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Oceanography and Marine Biology by S. J. Hawkins,A. L. Allcock,A. E. Bates,L. B. Firth,I. P. Smith,S. Swearer,A. Evans,P. Todd,B. Russell,C. McQuaid Pdf

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science. If you are interested in submitting a review for consideration for publication in OMBAR, please email the Editor in Chief, Stephen Hawkins, at [email protected]. This volume considers such diverse topics as optimal design for ecosystem-level ocean observatories, the oceanography and ecology of Ningaloo, human pressures and the emergence of novel marine ecosystems and priority species to support the functional integrity of coral reefs. Six of the nine peer-reviewed contributions in Volume 58 are available to read Open Access via the links on the Routledge.com webpage. An international Editorial Board ensures global relevance and expert peer review, with editors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and oceanographic institutes, but also universities worldwide. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080463339

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Advances in Marine Biology by Anonim Pdf

Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University of Texas, USA), 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. Includes over 55 tables of descriptive data Covers such topics as coral reefs, southern ocean cephalopods, seagrass and mangrove habitats, and much more 4 reviews authored by experts in their relevant fields of study

Author : Anthony J. Martin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226810508

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Life Sculpted by Anthony J. Martin Pdf

"There is much to love between this book’s covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted—and some truly beautiful ones."—Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our planet. Did you know elephants dig ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes? Or that parrotfish chew coral reefs and poop sandy beaches? Or that our planet once hosted a five-ton dinosaur-crunching alligator cousin? In fact, almost since its fascinating start, life was boring. Billions of years ago bacteria, algae, and fungi began breaking down rocks in oceans, a role they still perform today. About a half-billion years ago, animal ancestors began drilling, scraping, gnawing, or breaking rocky seascapes. In turn, their descendants crunched through the materials of life itself—shells, wood, and bones. Today, such “bioeroders” continue to shape our planet—from the bacteria that devour our teeth to the mighty moon snail, always hunting for food, as evidenced by tiny snail-made boreholes in clams and other moon snails. There is no better guide to these lifeforms than Anthony J. Martin, a popular science author, paleontologist, and co-discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur. Following the crumbs of lichens, sponges, worms, clams, snails, octopi, barnacles, sea urchins, termites, beetles, fishes, dinosaurs, crocodilians, birds, elephants, and (of course) humans, Life Sculpted reveals how bioerosion expanded with the tree of life, becoming an essential part of how ecosystems function while reshaping the face of our planet. With vast knowledge and no small amount of whimsy, Martin uses paleontology, biology, and geology to reveal the awesome power of life’s chewing force. He provokes us to think deeply about the past and present of bioerosion, while also considering how knowledge of this history might aid us in mitigating and adapting to climate change in the future. Yes, Martin concedes, sometimes life can be hard—but life also makes everything less hard every day.

Author : Michael Sweet,Dominic A. Andradi-Brown,Christian Robert Voolstra,Catherine Ellen Ivy Head,David Curnick,Thomas K. Frazer,Anastazia T. Banaszak
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889634187

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Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene by Michael Sweet,Dominic A. Andradi-Brown,Christian Robert Voolstra,Catherine Ellen Ivy Head,David Curnick,Thomas K. Frazer,Anastazia T. Banaszak Pdf

Every year, 10 outstanding Research Topics are selected as finalists of the Frontiers Spotlight Award. These shortlisted article collections each address a globally important field of research with the potential to drastically impact our future. They bring together the latest, cutting-edge research to advance their fields, present new solutions and foster essential, large-scale collaborations across multiple disciplines and research groups worldwide. This international research prize recognizes the most innovative and impactful topics and the winning team of editors receives $100,000 to organize an international scientific conference on the theme of their successful collection.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academy of Natural Sciences
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1604833785

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Redescription of Sparisoma Atomarium (Poey), a Valid West Indian Parrotfish: Notulae Naturae of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 378 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter F. Sale
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080925516

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The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs by Peter F. Sale Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in particular. Many of the methodologies that reef fish ecologists use in their studies will be useful to a wider audience of ecologists for the design of their ecological studies. Significant among the impacts of the research on reef fish ecology are the development of nonequilibrium models of community organization, more emphasis on the role of recruitment variability in structuring local assemblages, the development and testing of evolutionary models of social organization and reproductive biology, and new insights into predator-prey and plant-herbivore interactions.

Author : Alison L. Green,David R. Bellwood
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Coral reef fishes
ISBN : 9782831711690

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Monitoring functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience : a practical guide for coral reef managers in the Asia Pacific region by Alison L. Green,David R. Bellwood Pdf

"This document provides practical advice to field practitioners based on an example from the Asia Pacific Region. Key functional groups of herbivores are identified, species are assigned to each functional group, and methods are provided for monitoring their abundance, biomass and size structure ... This document represents the first attempt to develop a monitoring program that is specifically designed to monitor key functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience. Even though it is based on the best available information, it is important to remember that the science underpinning these methods is still new and developing. Further research is now required to address knowledge gaps and refine monitoring methods"--Executive summary.