Rutgers University Marine Field Station
(RUMFS)
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field facility of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
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Rutgers University Marine Field Station A
field facility of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
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RUMFS Publications
 Ecology of Estuarine Fishes: Temperate Waters of the Western North Atlanitc
This comprehensive refernce book details the life history and ecology of the fish species that occupy the estuarine and coastal habitats along much of the eastern United States. The life history and ecology of fishes in estuaries is poorly know realtive to the interest and needs of ichthyologists, estuarine ecologists, pollution biologists and resource managers at local, state and federal levels. Also, it is while they are in estuaries that they encounter several critical "bottlenecks" that can greatly affect survival rates and the resulting abundance of certain populations that we wish to harvest or are important components of these ecosytems. We intend to provide this missing information in a data-rich synthesis based on both historical and new information from a variety of sources embracing both temperate estuaries and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean where many of these species are spawned and spend the winter. This monograph will comprehensively treat the how, when , and why of the dominant fishes in estuaries. Synthesis chapters summarizing the patterns of reproduction and developement, larval supply, settlement, growth, mortality, habitat use and migrations will be foci for 94 species. "No one else could have written this book. I am amazed by the depth and range of knowledge demonstrated. This synthesis is a major contribution to estuarine fish studies."-Dave Secor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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