Edited by
Robert Shadwick, Canada Research Chair, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., Canada
George Lauder, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Description
The first in two decades to exclusively integrate physiological and biomechanical studies of fish locomotion, feeding and breathing, making
this book both comprehensive and unique. This book reviews and integrates recent developments in research on fish biomechanics, with
particular emphasis on experimental results derived from the application of innovative new technologies to this area of research, such
as high-speed video, sonomicrometry and digital imaging of flow fields. The collective chapters, written by leaders in the field, provide
a multidisciplinary view and synthesis of the latest information on feeding mechanics, breathing mechanics, sensory systems, stability
and maueverability, skeletal systems, muscle structure and performance, and hydrodynamics of steady and burst swimming, including riverine
passage of migratory species.
Included in series
Fish Physiology
Audience:
Fish Biologists, Animal Physiologists, Animal Behaviourists, Ecologists, Aquaculture industry, Aquatic Toxicology Researchers, Fisheries Managers
