Résumé :
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This unparalleled synthesis offers the most important empirical and theoretical study on the ecology of freshwater fish to date. Addressing more than twenty major topics in freshwater fish ecology, the book takes an in-depth look at the structure of local fish assemblages and their composition, with emphasis on zoogeographical, regional, local, physical, and biotic factors. The text also examines the structures of local fish assemblages as influenced by environmental and evolutionary scales and by interactions within these fish assemblages. Divided in three parts, the book begins by addressing the general patterns of the diversity of fishes worlwide ; the diversity structure, and stability of local fish assemblages ; and the limnological and physical features that influence local assemblages. The second part focuses on factors that influence the structure of local fish assemblages. It includes a review of global and regional zoogeography and distributional history of freshwater fishes through evolutionary times, and explores environmental stress factors, morphology and life history, and interactive factors. The final section summarizes known influences of fish species or local assemblages on ecosystem structure or processes where they do occur.
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