Expanding the coverage of its preceding volume (2004), this new book considers how elasmobranch fishes – the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras – successfully survive in the wide range of habitats in which they live. It examines the particular suitability of integrated sensory systems and the resultant perception of their surroundings. This resource also discusses the stresses and behaviors that prevent elasmobranchs from inhabiting some oceanic realms and the adaptations that allow many other elasmobranch species to exploit virtually all aquatic realms, from marine and freshwater habitats, to tropical and Arctic waters.
• Marine Biology
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Winner of Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title award, January 2005, this bestseller is written by top tier scientists in elasmobranch research. It brings together the latest information on the phylogeny, physiology, behavior and ecology of sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays, and chimaeras. The book includes 19 chapters that address phylogeny; form, function, and physiological processes; and ecology of sharks and their relatives that dominate the Chondrichthyes. Each chapter in Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives offers a comprehensive succinct review of the subject with extensive up-to-date citations. It includes nearly 200 illustrations and color insert.
• Marine Biology
Marine & Aquatic Science
Zoology
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