Migration ecology of marine fishes
Secor, D.H. (2015). Migration ecology of marine fishes. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. ISBN 978-1-4214-1612-0. 292 pp.
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VLIZ: Ecology ECO.207 [102191]
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Migration
Organisms > Aquatic organisms > Animals > Aquatic animals > Marine animals > Fishes > Aquatic animals > Marine fishes
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
Secor explains how the four decades of research since Jones's classic have employed digital-age technologies―including electronic miniaturization, computing, microchemistry, ocean observing systems, and telecommunications―that render overt the previously hidden migration behaviors of fish. Emerging from the millions of observed, telemetered, simulated, and chemically traced movement paths is an appreciation of the individual fish. Members of the same populations may stay put, explore, delay, accelerate, evacuate, and change course as they conditionally respond to their marine existence. But rather than a morass of individual behaviors, Secor shows us that populations are collectively organized through partial migration, which causes groups of individuals to embark on very different migration pathways despite being members of the same population. Case studies throughout the book emphasize how migration ecology confounds current fisheries management. Yet, as Secor explains, conservation frameworks that explicitly consider the influence of migration on yield, stability, and resilience outcomes have the potential to transform fisheries management. A synthetic treatment of all marine fish taxa (teleosts and elasmobranchs), this book employs explanatory frameworks from avian and systems ecology while arguing that migrations are emergent phenomena, structured through schooling, phenotypic plasticity, and other collective agencies. |
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