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Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries
Edited by Bruce Phillips
Blackwell
June 2006
Hardback 528 pages, 178 illustrations. ISBN 1405126574
£125.00
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Lobsters are one of the most commercially important groups of animals harvested and
farmed throughout the world. Bringing high prices on the market and the table, the results
and yields of farmed species has seen continued growth.
Under the Editorship of Bruce Phillips an international team of authors provide exhaustive coverage
of these fascinating creatures, stretching from growth and development to management and conservation.
Fisheries scientists, aquaculture personnel, aquatic and invertebrate biologists, physiologists, ecologists,
marine biologists and environmental biologists will all find this a vital source of reference. Libraries
in universities and research establishments where biological and life sciences and fisheries and aquaculture
are studied and taught will find it a valuable addition to their shelves.
Contents
- Chapter 1
Growth & Development: Understanding and Modelling Growth Variability in Lobsters
Rick Wahle & Mike Fogarty
- Chapter 2
Reproduction
Alison B. MacDiarmid & Bernard Sainte-Marie
- Chapter 3
Behaviour
Michael Childress & Steven Jury
- Chapter 4
Phylogeny and Evolution
Sheila Patek, Rodney M. Feldman, Megan Porter & Dale Tshudy
- Chapter 5
Pathogens, Parasites And Other Symbionts
Jeff Shields, Fran Stephens & Brian Jones
- Chapter 6
Nutrition of Wild and Cultured Lobsters
Mathew M. Nelson, Peter D. Nichols, Andrew G. Jeffs, Charles F. Phleger & Michael P. Bruce
- Chapter 7
Larval and Postlarval Ecology
Bruce Phillips, John D. Booth, J. Stanley Cobb, Andrew Jeffs & Paulette McWilliam
- Chapter 8
Juvenile and Adult Ecology
Mark J. Butler, Robert S. Steneck & William F. Herrnkind
- Chapter 9
Homarus species
J. Stanley Cobb & Kathy Castro
- Chapter 10
Jasus species
John D. Booth
- Chapter 11
Panulirus Species
Bruce F. Phillips & Roy Melville-Smith
- Chapter 12
Palinurus species
Johan Groeneveld, Raquel Goni & Daniel Latrouite
- Chapter 13
Nephrops species
Mike Bell, Frank Redant & Ian Tuck
- Chapter 14
Scyllarides Species
Ehud Spanier & Kari Lavalli
- Chapter 15
Conclusions
Bruce Phillips
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