Ebook: Ecology of Mysidacea

The origins of this volume date back to the 1978 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meetings in Victoria, British Columbia. Interest in the ecology of mysids, particularly Mysis relieta. was growing rapidly, so a meeting of active workers was held at the ASLO conference. Although the small group of researchers attending that first meeting were primarily North American and interested in Mysis relieta. the group quickly expanded to include researchers from every continent with interests in all aspects of mysid biology (see Appendix). The group, informally called the Mysid Research Group, formed to serve two basic functions·. The first was to facilitate communication among mysid researchers by publishing a member­ ship list and periodic newsletters. The second was to organize an international symposium on mysid ecology. After several false starts, a symposium was successfully held in conjunction with the 1981 ASLO meetings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The symposium lasted over parts of two days with an evening workshop the second day. Altogether, 1 poster and 21 oral presentations were given by 42 researchers. This volume is an outgrowth of that symposium and includes 15 of the papers originally presented at the conference. In order to make the volume as comprehensive as possible, contributions from individuals who could not attend the symposium were solicited. Thus, a total of 22 original contributions make up the present work.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Autecology of the cryptic mysid crustacean, Heteromysis formosa S.I. Smith 1873, in a temperate estuary....Pages 1-7
Key to the shallow water Mysidacea of the Texas coast with notes on their ecology....Pages 9-21
Salinity and temperature tolerance of juvenile Mesopodopsis orientalis: laboratory studies....Pages 23-30
Abundance and life history of Neomysis intermedia Czerniawsky in Lake Kasumigaura....Pages 31-39
Production, population biology and diet of Neomysis integer (Leach) in a shallow Frisian lake (The Netherlands)....Pages 41-51
Vertical migration of Mysis relicta Loven....Pages 53-61
Size-frequency estimates of secondary production by Mysis relicta in Lakes Michigan and Huron....Pages 63-68
Preliminary results of an experimental study of the effects of mysid predation on estuarine zooplankton community structure....Pages 69-78
The predation of mysids by fish of the Rockall Trough, northeastern Atlantic Ocean....Pages 79-84
Feeding habits ofMysis relicta - an overview....Pages 85-99
Measuring in situ predation by Mysis relicta and observations on underdispersed microdistributions of zooplankton....Pages 101-107
Mysids in toxicity testing - a review....Pages 109-119
Back Matter....Pages 121-131
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