A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks

About this book

Originally published in 1984, this title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates the University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.

This book in the Functional Biology Series combines the author's two major academic interests, research on the biology of the sticklebacks and teaching courses on theoretical ecology. The purposes of the book are twofold. The first is to demonstrate that the theoretical framework in ecology and evolutionary biology that has been developed, much of it over the past two decades, can be used to illuminate our understanding of the ways in which animals function in everyday life. The second is to show that the knowledge that can only be gained by a close and detailed study of a taxon will be required to test critically this theoretical framework.

Contents

Contents   v
Functional Biology Series: Foreword / P. Calow   ix
Preface / R.J. Wootton   xi
Acknowledgements   xiii
1 Introduction   1
2 Spatial Distribution   4
3 Structure and Function   20
4 Feeding   32
5 Environmental Factors, Metabolism and Energetics   63
6 Growth and Production   83
7 Reproduction   103
8 Inter-specific Interactions   155
9 Population Dynamics   182
10 Ecological Genetics   193
11 Life-history Strategy in Sticklebacks   227
References   239
Index   261

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