Behavioural Ecology of Fishes

337 Pages·1993·40.601 MB·\337

by  Felicity Anne Huntingford (Author)

BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY
OF FISHES
Ettore Majorana International Life Sciences Series
Edited by A. Zichichi, Director, Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture.
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RECENT ADVANCES IN PERINATAL MEDICINE
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BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY OF FISHES
Edited by F.A. Huntingford and P. Torricelli
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BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF FEEDING
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BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY
OF FISHES
Edited by
Felicity A. Huntingford
Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Great Britain
and
Patrizia Torricelli
Dipartmento di Biologia e Fisiologia,
Universita di Parma, Italy
Proceedings of a conference held at
the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture,
Erice, Italy 30 September-5 October 1991
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Behavioural ecology of fishes I edited by Felicity A. Huntingford and
Patrizia Torricelli.
p. cm. --(Ettore Majorana international life sciences
series, ISSN 0896-4343 ; v. 11)
''Proceedings of a conference held at the Ettore Majorana Centre
for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 30 September -5 October
1991."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 3-7186-5346-X.
1. Fishes--Behavior--Congresses. 2. Fishes--Ecology--Congresses.
I. Huntingford, Felicity. II. Torricelli, Patrizia, 1949-.
ill. Title: Behavioral ecology of fishes. N. Series.
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CONTENTS
Introduction to the Series vii
Preface ix
Introduction
FELICITY A. HUNTINGFORD
Behaviour, Ecology and Teleost Fishes 1
GEORGE W. BARLOW
Fish Behavioural Ecology: Pros, Cons and Opportunities 7
Predator avoidance
ANNE E. MAGURRAN, BENONI H. SEGHERS, GARY R. CARVALHO
and PAUL W. SHAW
Evolution of Adaptive Variation in Antipredator Behaviour 29
FELICITY A. HUNTINGFORD and PETER J. WRIGHT
The Development of Adaptive Variation in Predator A voidance in
Freshwater Fishes 45
VILMOS CSANYI and ANTAL D6KA
Learning Interactions between Prey and Predator Fish 63
CARIN MAGNHAGEN
Conflicting Demands in Gobies: When to Eat, Reproduce, and A void
Predators 79
Foraging
PAUL J. B. HART and ANDREW B. GILL
Choosing Prey Size: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Foraging
Models for Predicting Prey Choice by Fish 91
MICHEL J. KAISER and ROGER N. HUGHES
Factors Affecting the Behavioural Mechanisms of Diet Selection in Fishes 105
FRIETSON GALlS
Morphological Constraints on Behaviour through Ontogeny. The
Importance of Developmental Constraints 119
V
vi CONTENTS
Resource defence
JAMBS W. A. GRANT
Whether or Not to Defend? The Influence of Resource Distribution 137
GEORGE W. BARLOW
The Puzzling Paucity of Feeding Territories among Freshwater Fishes 155
GEORGE S. LOSEY JR.
Knowledge of Proximate Causes Aid Our Understanding of Function
and Evolutionary History 175
Life histories and reproduction
JEFFREY A. HUTCHINGS
Behavioural Implications of Intraspecific Life History Variation 187
NEIL B. METCALFE
Behavioural Causes and Consequences of Life History Variation in Fish 205
GUNILLA ROSENQVIST
Sex Role Reversal in a Pipefish 219
PATRIZIA TORRICELLI, MARCO LUGLI and LAURA BOBBIO
The Importance of Male-:.Male Competition and Sexually Selected
Dimorphic Traits for Male Reproductive Success in Site-attached
Fishes with Paternal Care: The Case of the Freshwater Goby
Padogobius martensi 231
ANGELO BISAZZA
Male Competition, Female Mate Choice and Sexual Size Dimorphism
in Poeciliid Fishes 257
THEO C. M. BAKKER and MANFRED MILINSKI
The Advantages of Being Red: Sexual Selection in the Stickleback 287
Conclusions
GERARD P. BAERENDS
Behavioural Organisation and the Evolution of Behavioural Strategies 301
Species List 317
Index 321
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
The purpose of this series of Life Sciences is to provide the latest
information on the research and development taking place at
institutions throughout the world.
The courses, held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture
in Erice, Sicily, are invaluable forms for direct communication
between specialists.
It is hoped that the dissemination of information via this series will
provide international reference works for researchers, practitioners
and students.
Antonino Zichichi
vii

PREFACE
This volume is based on the proceedings of a conference of the same name held at
the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Sicily, in October 1991. The conference was
organised because it was felt that the discipline of behavioural ecology is at
something of a turning point, with the classic explanatory theories being
reformulated in the light of new empirical evidence and with new techniques and
areas of interest becoming apparent. For this reason, an overview of the subject
was felt to be timely. Teleost fishes are, in many ways, extremely suitable subjects
for research into behavioural ecology, and many important studies have used this
group. Therefore, we felt that the current state of behavioural ecology and the
prospects for the future could be well documented by considering work on fishes,
allowing a reasonably concise but complete treatment of the topic. Four main areas
of interest were identified, and key researchers invited to give talks in which they
first reviewed the current status of their research field and then illustrated
important points with reference to their own work.
The meeting duly went ahead and was generally agreed to be informative,
stimulating and productive. Good conferences do not necessarily make good books,
but it was felt that the talks made a sufficiently coherent whole to justify producing
a publication along the same lines. The presentations at the meeting have therefore
been altered and refereed to form the nineteen articles of this volume. The organisers
and participants of the conference would like to thank the Ettore Majorana
Foundation and the staff of Ettore Majorana Centre for both financial and logistic
support for the meeting and Professor Danilo Mainardi, director of the School of
Ethology at the Ettore Majorana Centre, for his support.
Felicity A. Huntingford
Patrizia Torricelli
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