An Annotated Checklist Of The Fishes Of The Chagos Archipelago Central Indian Ocean
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An Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author | : Richard Winterbottom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
A two-and-a-half month collection expedition to the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, plus two other smaller collections made in 1980 and 1985, yielded specimens of 585 species of fishes, with an additional 16 species seen but not collected. A further 100 species are recorded from literature,and 2 additional species from Chagos were discovered in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History).
The Chagos Archipelago
Author | : Charles Sheppard |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2024-04-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1040016944 |
This book is the story of the natural history of Chagos Archipelago, and of the efforts of many to get it recognized as an important and protected wildlife reserve. Exploring its immense natural riches and biodiversity, both on islands and in the marine environment, this book addresses competing claims to its resources, its politics, and the desire of some commercial and political parties to exploit the area. It is about the fight to conserve a wonderland of biodiversity and obtain its protection from exploitation, especially of its reefs and other marine life. This book shows the importance of the Chagos Archipelago and why so much research was done there. Rather than being a typical research book, this work presents research in a narrative form and describes the now substantial Government, UN, and legal interest in the archipelago since the UK was told to ‘decolonise’ it. It is also the story of our planet in miniature: the archipelago encapsulates much of the world’s conservation tribulations in a way we can much more easily understand. This narrative will explore the difficulties faced by the Chagos Archipelago, including displaced people, old and derelict industries (coconut in this case), the military, politics, rich and untouched ecosystems that some want to exploit, ruined habitats on land, climate change, and territorial claims. It will examine how all of these factors have affected the natural history, biodiversity, and conservation of the archipelago. With beautiful photography of the Chagos Archipelago coral reefs and islands, as well as graphs indicating their findings, this book offers professionals, researchers, academics, and students in conservation and biodiversity an insight into one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. It is also accessible for non‐academic readers with an interest in climate change, biodiversity, and the importance of conservation.
Frogfishes
Author | : Theodore W. Pietsch |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421432528 |
Unmasking the mysteries of frogfish evolution and phylogenetic relationships through close examination of their fossil record, morphology, and molecular reconstruction, Frogfishes demonstrates the surprising diversity and beauty of this remarkable assemblage of marine shorefishes.
FAO Species Catalogue
Author | : Kent E. Carpenter |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fishery resources |
ISBN | : 9789251028896 |
Coastal Fishes of Oman
Author | : John E. Randall |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780824818081 |
The Sultanate of Oman, at the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, borders on three different bodies of Ocean: the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf. This beautifully illustrated book is the first to bring the diverse inshore fish fauna of Oman under one cover. Recent fieldwork by the author and colleagues has increased the number of known shore fishes (defined as those occurring in less than 200 metres) to 930, all of which are treated in this volume. A surprising 52 new species of inshore fishes of Oman (four of which required new generic names) were collected during the recent fieldwork; these had to be described in scientific papers to make the names available for this book. All of the species are illustrated, mostly in colour. The family and species accounts are written to be understood by the layman (a glossary and diagrams are provided to explain scientific terms), but with enough detail and references to serve the needs of professional biologists. Coastal Fishes of Oman will promote appreciation of the unique fish fauna of Oman, provide a much-needed inventory of this invaluable resource, and form the basis for future fisheries management.
Review of the Gobioid Fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author | : Richard Winterbottom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fishes |
ISBN | : 9780888543202 |
Covers the families Gobiidae, Eleotrididae, Kraemeriidae, and Microdesmidae.
The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs
Author | : Peter F. Sale |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 773 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080925510 |
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the ecology of coral reef fishes presented by top researchers from North America and Australia. Immense strides have been made over the past twenty years in our understanding of ecological systems in general and of reef fish ecology in particular. Many of the methodologies that reef fish ecologists use in their studies will be useful to a wider audience of ecologists for the design of their ecological studies. Significant among the impacts of the research on reef fish ecology are the development of nonequilibrium models of community organization, more emphasis on the role of recruitment variability in structuring local assemblages, the development and testing of evolutionary models of social organization and reproductive biology, and new insights into predator-prey and plant-herbivore interactions.