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Fish Locomotion (eBook, ePUB)

An Eco-ethological Perspective

Redaktion: Domenici, Paolo; Kapoor, B. G.

Beschreibung

Fish accomplish most of their basic behaviors by swimming. Swimming is fundamental in a vast majority of fish species for avoiding predation, feeding, finding food, mating, migrating and finding optimal physical environments. Fish exhibit a wide variety of swimming patterns and behaviors. This treatise looks at fish swimming from the behavioral and

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Autor

Paolo Domenici has a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is currently senior researcher at the Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Oristano, Italy. His research interests focus on the locomotion of aquatic animals, particularly fish. Most of his previous research was on the kinematics of locomotion within the context of predator -prey encounters and their ecological relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 549
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000738032
• Artikelnr.: 57706495