Author: Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue crab fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Blue Crab Advisory Report
Author: Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue crab fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Blue Crab 2003
Author: The Blue Crab
Author: Victor S. KennedyPublisher: Maryland Sea Grant College University of Maryland
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Proceedings of the 2003 Blue Crab Symposium
Author: Rochelle D. SeitzMid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Restoration
Author: Fisheries of the United States
Author: Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems
Author: J. Emmett DuffyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199720681
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm competition, active female mate choice, and eusocial behavior in animals outside the traditional social insect groups. Each of these findings has raised new questions, and suggested new answers, about the evolution of behavioral interactions among animals. This volume synthesizes recent research on the sexual and social biology of the Crustacea, one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth. Its staggering diversity includes ecologically important inhabitants of nearly every environment from deep-sea trenches, through headwater streams, to desert soils. The wide range of crustacean phenotypes and environments is accompanied by a comparable diversity of behavioral and social systems, including the elaborate courtship and wildly exaggerated morphologies of fiddler crabs, the mysterious queuing behavior of migrating spiny lobsters, and even eusociality in coral-reef shrimps. This diversity makes crustaceans particularly valuable for exploring the comparative evolution of sexual and social systems. Despite exciting recent advances, however, general recognition of the value of Crustacea as models has lagged behind that of the better studied insects and vertebrates. This book synthesizes the state of the field in crustacean behavior and sociobiology and places it in a conceptually based, comparative framework that will be valuable to active researchers and students in animal behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology. It brings together a group of internationally recognized and rising experts in fields related to crustacean behavioral ecology, ranging from physiology and functional morphology, through mating and social behavior, to ecology and phylogeny. Each chapter makes connections to other, non-crustacean taxa, and the volume closes with a summary section that synthesizes the contributions, discusses anthropogenic impacts, highlights unanswered questions, and provides a vision for profitable future research.
Proceedings of the 2003 Blue Crab Symposium
Author: Rochelle D. SeitzThe Ethics of What We Eat
Author: Peter SingerPublisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 1605296074
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely. The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices. As they point out: You can be ethical without being fanatical.
Physiology
Author: Ernest S. ChangPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019026683X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The Crustacea is one of the dominant invertebrate groups, displaying staggering diversity in form and function, and spanning the full spectrum of Earth's environments. Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, as few other taxa exhibit such a variety of body shapes and adaptations to particular habitats and environmental conditions. Physiology is the fourth volume in The Natural History of the Crustacea series, and the first book in over twenty-five years to provide an overview of the comparative physiology of crustaceans. An understanding of physiology is crucial to a comprehension of the biology of this fascinating invertebrate group. Written by a group of internationally recognized experts studying a wide range of crustacean taxa and topics, this volume synthesizes current research in a format that is accessible to a wide scientific audience.