{"product_id":"migration-ecology-of-marine-fishes-david-hallock-secor-9781421416120","title":"Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory look at the secrets of marine fish migration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since F. R. Harden Jones published his masterwork on fish migration in 1968 has a book so thoroughly demystified the subject. With stunning clarity, David Hallock Secor's \u003ci\u003eMigration Ecology of Fishes\u003c\/i\u003e finally penetrates the clandestine nature of marine fish migration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecor explains how the four decades of research since Jones's classic have employed digital-age technologies--including electronic miniaturization, computing, microchemistry, ocean observing systems, and telecommunications--that render overt the previously hidden migration behaviors of fish. Emerging from the millions of observed, telemetered, simulated, and chemically traced movement paths is an appreciation of the individual fish. Members of the same populations may stay put, explore, delay, accelerate, evacuate, and change course as they conditionally respond to their marine existence. But rather than a morass of individual behaviors, Secor shows us that populations are collectively organized through partial migration, which causes groups of individuals to embark on very different migration pathways despite being members of the same population. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCase studies throughout the book emphasize how migration ecology confounds current fisheries management. Yet, as Secor explains, conservation frameworks that explicitly consider the influence of migration on yield, stability, and resilience outcomes have the potential to transform fisheries management. A synthetic treatment of all marine fish taxa (teleosts and elasmobranchs), this book employs explanatory frameworks from avian and systems ecology while arguing that migrations are emergent phenomena, structured through schooling, phenotypic plasticity, and other collective agencies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book provides overviews of the following concepts: \u003cbr\u003e- The comparative movement ecology of fishes and birds \u003cbr\u003e- The alignment of mating systems with larval dispersal \u003cbr\u003e- Schooling and migration as adaptations to marine food webs \u003cbr\u003e- Natal homing \u003cbr\u003e- Connectivity in populations and metapopulations \u003cbr\u003e- The contribution of migration ecology to population resilience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Hallock Secor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421416123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421416120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"David Hallock Secor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449574895871,"sku":"9781421416120","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eecc66c0-636b-4a3d-8df3-fe6f981aaef9.jpg?v=1777263995","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/migration-ecology-of-marine-fishes-david-hallock-secor-9781421416120","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}