Stream fish community dynamics a critical synthesis / William J. Matthews, Edie Marsh-Matthews

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, William J. (William John), 1946- author.

Marsh-Matthews, Edie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fish communities--United States. .

Fish communities.

Stream ecology--United States.

Stream ecology.

Freshwater fishes--Ecology--United States..

Freshwater fishes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages, 31 numbered pages of plates) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore : Project MUSE, [2017]

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The book includes; A comparison of all global and local communities with respect to community composition at the species and family level, emergent community properties, and the relationship between those emergent properties and the environments of the study sites; Analyses of traits of individual species that are important to their distribution or success in harsh environments; A review of evidence for the importance of interactions--including competition and predation--in community dynamics of stream fishes; An assessment of disturbance effects in fish community dynamics; New analysis of the short- and long-term dynamics of variation in stream fish communities, illustrating the applicability and importance of the "loose equilibrium concept"; New analyses and comparisons of spatiotemporal variation in community dynamics and beta diversity partitioning; An overview of the effects of fish in ecosystems in the central and eastern United StatesThe book ends with a summary chapter that places the authors' findings in broader contexts and describes how the "loose equilibrium concept"--which may be the most appropriate default assumption for dynamics of stream fishes in the changing climate of the future--applies to many kinds of stream fish communities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Studying Stream Fish Communities

Chapter 2: The Stream Fish Community Study Systems

Chapter 3: Characterizing the Fish Communities

Chapter 4: Traits of Species That Influence Community Dynamics

Chapter 5: Interactions among Species

Chapter 6: Disturbance: Weather Extremes, Flood and Drought, and Fish Community Dynamics

Chapter 7: Temporal Dynamics of Fish Communities and the Loose Equilibrium Concept

Chapter 8: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Stream Fish Communities

Chapter 9: What's It All Mean? Ecosystem Effects

Chapter 10: A Critical Synthesis

Index

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Color Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781421422039 (electronic book)

1-4214-2203-4

OCLC:

982122375