Zooplankton is a morphologically and taxonomically diverse group and includes organisms
that vary in size by many orders of magnitude, but they are all faced with the common …

This chapter summarizes the ways that larvae respond behaviorally to the biotic and abiotic
attributes of their environment while swimming. Most larvae are heavier than seawater and …

It is argued that the problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology, unifying
population biology and ecosystems science, and marrying basic and applied ecology …

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has
evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and …

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date
coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic …

Early in the 20th century, Johan Hjort developed compelling arguments and hypotheses to
explain recruitment variability that became dominant for more than 75 years. A cautious …

Climate influences a population through a variety of processes, including reproduction,
growth, migration patterns and phenology. Climate may operate either directly through …

We used literature reports to evaluate the hypotheses that: 1. year-class strenght in marine
fishes is determined by mortality operating during the pre-juvenile stage of the life history …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores that the pelagic food chain is mainly linear and
short, and there is a relatively close coupling between the primary production and the …

A review of the literature (ca 1900 to 1992) on copepod feeding indicates that combinations
of stochashc and deterministic processes result in behaviors, or feeding strategies, that …