EcologicalStudiesinTropicalFishCommunities(CambridgeTropicalBiologySeries)

Tropicalfishpresentsomeofthebestexamplesofhownewspeciesevolveandhowcomplexecologicalcommunitiesaremaintained.Theirstudyhasgeneratedimportantnewideasontherolesofecologyandbehaviourintheevolutionofspeciesandcommunities.Thisbookbringstogetherforthefirsttimetheresultsofwidelyscatteredresearchonfishintropicalrivers,lakesandseas,researchthathasbeenstimulatedbythesplendidopportunitiestoobservethebehaviouroffishintheirnaturalhabitatsintheclearwarmwaters.Thebookopenswithanoverviewoftheecologyoftropicalfreshwaterandmarineenvironmentsandtheirassociatedfishfaunas,andthenpresentsanumberoffreshwaterstudiesdrawnfromtheAfrican,SouthAmerican,AsianandNewGuineatropics.Specialconsiderationisgiventothenewman-madelakeswhichhaveprovidedlarge-scaleexperimentsonthechangeofriverinefishcommunitiestolacustrineones,andtothegreatlakesofEastAfricaforexamplesofrecentspeciesevolution.