The theory of recruitment in fishes and hypotheses pertaining to causes of recruitment
fluctuation are summarized. In spite of considerable research effort over several decades …

Cannibalistic behaviour in fish is reviewed here for the first time. 2. Cannibalism has been
recorded in 36 out of 410 teleost families according to the published literature, but is …

La compréhension des mécanismes régissant le recrutement des poissons est un sujet
important de l'halieutique. Bien que l'on dispose d'un grand nombre de documents sur les …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses predation as a factor that may regulate levels of
recruitment or generate variations in it. It also discusses predation on fish eggs and larvae …

We utilized a long-term data base collected over a broad geographic range to examine
predator size-prey size relationships for 18 species of marine fish predators from continental …

A variety of development characteristics, morphological, behavioural, and experiential,
contribute to the extreme vulnerability of young fishes to predation. The influence of these …

A combined mesocosm and microcosm approach was employed to analyze the impact of
age, and of size independent of age effects, of yolk-sac capelin larvae Mallotus villosus on …

Growth-selective predation mortality was demonstrated for postlarval Japanese anchovy
Engraulis japonicus in field research. The larval anchovy and their predatory fish were …

In 18 marine fish species from the eastern Mediterranean, vertical mouth opening increased
linearly with total length (LT) for 10 species and log‐linearly for eight species. Horizontal …

Body size is known to play a critical role in determining patterns of prey selection. In this
study, we examined the diets of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) from three …