There is increasing interest in individual differences in animal behaviour. Recent research
now suggests that an individual's behaviour, once considered to be plastic, may be more …

A pelagic larval stage is found in nearly all demersal marine teleost fishes, and it is during
this pelagic stage that the geographic scale of dispersal is determined. Marine biologists …

Noise-generating human activities affect hearing, communication and movement in
terrestrial and aquatic animals, but direct evidence for impacts on survival is rare. We …

A perplexing new question that has emerged from the recent surge of interest in behavioural
syndromes or animal personalities is–why do individual animals behave consistently when …

Numerous groundfish stocks in both the Atlantic and Pacific are considered overfished,
resulting in large-scale fishery closures. Fishing, in addition to simply removing biomass …

Relative body size has long been recognized as a factor influencing reproductive success in
fishes, but maternal age has only recently been considered. We monitored growth and …

Increases in noise‐generating human activities since the Industrial Revolution have
changed the acoustic landscape of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Anthropogenic …

Knowledge of geographic and temporal scales of adaptive genetic variation is crucial to
species conservation, yet understanding of these phenomena, particularly in marine …

Zooplankton are critical to the vitality of estuaries and coastal waters. In this revised edition
of Johnson and Allen's instant classic, readers are taken on a tour of the miniature universe …

Response delays to predator attack may be adaptive, suggesting that latency to respond
does not always reflect predator detection time, but can be a decision based on starvation …