Environmental biology of European cyprinids: Papers from the workshop on ‘The Environmental Biology of Cyprinids’ held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, in September 1989: Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, cartea 13

to the environmental biology of European cyprinids.- Feeding behavior and ecophysiology.- A model for switching between particulate-feeding and filter-feeding in the common bream, Abramis brama.- Ontogeny of prey attack behaviour in larvae and juveniles of three European cyprinids.- Food consumption and growth of larvae and juveniles of three cyprinid species at different food levels.- Food searching decisions in four cyprinid species.- Functional responses by five cyprinid species to planktonic prey.- The energetics of starvation and growth after refeeding in juveniles of three cyprinid species.- Interactive effects of season and temperature on enzyme activities, tissue and whole animal respiration in roach, Rutilus rutilus.- Influence of temperature and ambient oxygen on the swimming energetics of cyprinid larvae and juveniles.- Ecomorphology.- Quantitative fine structural diversification of red and white muscle fibers in cyprinids.- Structure, development and function of the branchial sieve of the common bream, Abramis brama, white bream, Blicca bjoerkna and roach, Rutilus rutilus.- Density and distribution of external taste buds in cyprinids.- Neuroecology of cyprinids: comparative, quantitative histology reveals diverse brain patterns.- Brain morphology and turbidity preference in Notropis and related cyprinid genera (Cyprinidae, Teleostei).- Distribution and field biology.- How dams on the River Danube might have caused hybridization and influenced the appearance of a new cyprinid taxon.- Comparative microhabitat use of cyprinid larvae and juveniles in a lotic floodplain channel.- The role of predation and competition in determining the distribution of common bream, roach and white bream in Dutch eutrophic lakes.- Interactions between the roach, Rutilus rutilus and waterfowl populations of Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland.- Seasonal feeding activity and ontogenetic dietary shifts in crucian carp, Carassius carassius.- Epilogue: food and feeding, ecomorphology, and energy assimilation and conversion in cyprinids.- Species and subject index.