Evolution Illuminated: Salmon and Their Relatives

by Stephen C. Stearns, Andrew P. Hendry (Editor)

Overview

This book will appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines it integrates--evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management, and conservation. Variation in salmonids can be used to illustrate virtually all evolutionary questions, and so the work will also attract general scientific interest by ecologists and evolutionary and conservation biologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195343830
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/27/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction—The Salmonid contribution to key issues in evolution, Stearns and Hendry1. Life Histories, evolution, and salmonids, Schaffer2. The evolution of philopatry and dispersal, Hendry, Castric, Kinnison, and Quinn3. To sea or not to sea? Anadromy versus non-anadromy in salmonids, Hendry, Bohlin, Jonsson, and Berg4. Evolution of egg size and number, Einum, Kinnison, and Hendry5. Norms of reaction and phenotypic plasticity in salmonid life histories, Hutchings6. Ecological theory of adaptive radiation, Bernatchez7. From macro to micro-evolution, Kinnison and Hendry8. Evolution in mixed company, Taylor9. Salmonid breeding systems, Fleming and Reynolds10. Salmonid insights into effective breeding size, Waples11. Evolution of chinook salmon life history under size-selective harvest, Hard12. Conservation units and preserving diversity, Ford13. Toward evolutionary management, Young