Feeding ecology and predation of marine fish larvae
Hunter, J.R. (1981). Feeding ecology and predation of marine fish larvae, in: Lasker, R. (Ed.) Marine fish larvae: morphology, ecology, and relation to fisheries. pp. 33-77
In: Lasker, R. (Ed.) (1981). Marine fish larvae: morphology, ecology, and relation to fisheries. Washington Sea Grant Program/University of Washington Press: Seattle. ISBN 978-0295958835. xiii, 131 pp., more
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Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800) [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
The objective of my three lectures in this series is to describe some of the behavioral and physiological characteristics of marine fish larvae that affect their survival and growth. The two major sources of larval mortality are probably starvation and predation. The first two lectures deal with feeding ecology of marine fish larvae; I point out differences in life history strategy and how such differences affect the ability of larvae to avoid starvation. These two lectures came from a review I had written in 1977 (Hunter, 1980), and that review is reproduced here with only minor changes. In my last lecture I discuss the problem of predation on eggs and larvae and make some general conclusions. In all lectures, I depend on my research and that of colleagues at the Southwest Fisheries Center in La Jolla, California. |
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