Aquatic Life Cycle Strategies: Survival in a variable environment
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Full reference:
Whitfield, M., Matthews, J. and Reynolds, C. (eds.)(1999) Aquatic life cycle strategies: survival in a variable environment. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 149p (Occasional Publications. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 6)
Preface
In a rapidly changing world it is essential that we should understand the factors controlling the sustainability of ecosystems. In aquatic ecosystems, both sensitivity and recoverability are influenced strongly by the life cycles of the organisms concerned. The response of individual species to change and their chances of survival in a variable environment can be affected dramatically by the timing and location of disturbances relative to their natural rhythms of fertilisation, dispersal and development.
This book illustrates the wide range of issues that must be addressed to understand such relationships. Its purpose is to consider those aspects of life history that make aquatic organisms especially susceptible to (or adaptable to) changing environments -and hence to discuss links between impacts on individuals and the consequent effects on populations and communities.
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Contents
Life Cycles:
1. Synchrony and sociality: breeding strategies in constant and variable benthic environments
by C M Young
2. With or against the grain: responses of phytoplankton to pelagic variability
by C S Reynolds
3. Plankton behaviour and life cycles in advective environments
by S Kaartvedt
4. Egg Hatching: one mechanism for life-cycle partitioning in aquatic insects
by U H Humpesch
5. The influence of ontogeny on the response of freshwater fish to environmental variables
by R H K Mann
Variability and impact:
6. History and recruitment in structure of intertidal assemblages on rocky shores:
an introduction to problems for interpretation of natural change
by A J Underwood
7. On the benefits of being a larva -or not
by J A Pechenik
8. Amphibians and agriculture: double jeopardy
by R S Oldham
9. Running the gauntlet: pollution, evolution and reclamation of an estuarine bay
by J Levinton
10. Identifying 'marine sensitive areas' - the importance of understanding life-cycles
by K Hiscock
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