- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Cover Art Work
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Fish Reproduction -
Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 3 Fish Egg and Larval Identification and Systematics -
Chapter 4 Ecology of Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 5 Sampling Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment -
Chapter 7 Habitat, Water Quality, and Conservation Biology -
Chapter 8 Rearing and Culture of Marine Fishes -
LABORATORY EXERCISE ONE Ova Measurement to Determine Number of Spawnings and Introduction to Writing a Scientific Paper -
Laboratory Exercise Two Use of Histology to Determine if Multiple Spawnings are Occurring -
Laboratory Exercise Three Fecundity Determination -
Laboratory Exercise Four Artificially Spawning, Fertilizing, and Rearing Planktonic Fish Eggs -
Laboratory Exercise Five Culturing Marine Fish Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Six Conducting Ichthyoplankton Tows -
Laboratory Exercise Seven Sorting and Identifying Fish Eggs and Larvae in Ichthyoplankton Samples -
Laboratory Exercise Eight Diversity/Identification of Planktonic Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Nine Preparing and Examining Larval Fish Otoliths for Daily Growth -
Laboratory Exercise Ten Larval Fish Gut Contents -
Laboratory Exercise Eleven Histological Condition Index -
Laboratory Exercise Twelve Clearing and Staining Larval Fish - Glossary
- Literature Cited
- Taxonomical Index
- General Index
Population Dynamics and Recruitment
Population Dynamics and Recruitment
- Chapter:
- (p.180) (p.181) Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment
- Source:
- Early Life History of Marine Fishes
- Author(s):
Bruce S. Miller
Arthur W. Kendall
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Population dynamics is the study of fluctuations in abundance of populations. It considers how much populations vary, and over what timescales, and seeks to find the causes of these variations. Much of the study of population dynamics in fishes has focused on recruitment, since variations in annual reproductive output of populations seem to drive population abundance in most fishes. Recruitment is the number of juveniles in a population that annually survives the egg and larval stages. This chapter discusses the population dynamics of fishes, focusing on specific topics such as the factors affecting fish egg, larvae, and juvenile survival, causes of fish population fluctuations, and life history of fishes. This chapter also presents the different recruitment studies that have been conducted, discusses the future direction of recruitment studies.
Keywords: fishes, population dynamics, fish eggs, early life stages, larval fish, developmental stages
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Cover Art Work
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Fish Reproduction -
Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 3 Fish Egg and Larval Identification and Systematics -
Chapter 4 Ecology of Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 5 Sampling Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment -
Chapter 7 Habitat, Water Quality, and Conservation Biology -
Chapter 8 Rearing and Culture of Marine Fishes -
LABORATORY EXERCISE ONE Ova Measurement to Determine Number of Spawnings and Introduction to Writing a Scientific Paper -
Laboratory Exercise Two Use of Histology to Determine if Multiple Spawnings are Occurring -
Laboratory Exercise Three Fecundity Determination -
Laboratory Exercise Four Artificially Spawning, Fertilizing, and Rearing Planktonic Fish Eggs -
Laboratory Exercise Five Culturing Marine Fish Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Six Conducting Ichthyoplankton Tows -
Laboratory Exercise Seven Sorting and Identifying Fish Eggs and Larvae in Ichthyoplankton Samples -
Laboratory Exercise Eight Diversity/Identification of Planktonic Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Nine Preparing and Examining Larval Fish Otoliths for Daily Growth -
Laboratory Exercise Ten Larval Fish Gut Contents -
Laboratory Exercise Eleven Histological Condition Index -
Laboratory Exercise Twelve Clearing and Staining Larval Fish - Glossary
- Literature Cited
- Taxonomical Index
- General Index
