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First published in 1992, this guide has been significantly expanded
in a new 3rd edition. The popular, user-friendly field guide,
covering all major groups of marine invertebrates encountered by
divers on coral reefs and adjacent habitats, has grown to include
900 species beautifully documented with more than 1200 underwater
photographs -- nearly doubling the total in the previous editions.
Les Wilk has joined Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach authoring the
comprehensive new edition.
Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the
World, Fifth Edition is the only modern, phylogenetically based
classification of the world s fishes. The updated text offers new
phylogenetic diagrams that clarify the relationships among fish
groups, as well as cutting-edge global knowledge that brings this
classic reference up to date. With this resource, you can classify
orders, families, and genera of fishes, understand the connections
among fish groups, organize fishes in their evolutionary context,
and imagine new areas of research. To further assist your work,
this text provides representative drawings, many of them new, for
most families of fishes, allowing you to make visual connections to
the information as you read. It also contains many references to
the classical as well as the most up-to-date literature on fish
relationships, based on both morphology and molecular biology. The
study of fishes is one that certainly requires dedication and
access to reliable, accurate information. With more than 30,000
known species of sharks, rays, and bony fishes, both lobe-finned
and ray-finned, you will need to master your area of study with the
assistance of the best reference materials available. This text
will help you bring your knowledge of fishes to the next level. *
Explore the anatomical characteristics, distribution, common and
scientific names, and phylogenetic relationships of fishes * Access
biological and anatomical information on more than 515 families of
living fishes * Better appreciate the complexities and
controversies behind the modern view of fish relationships * Refer
to an extensive bibliography, which points you in the direction of
additional, valuable, and up-to-date information, much of it
published within the last few years Fishes of the World, Fifth
Edition is an invaluable resource for professional ichthyologists,
aquatic ecologists, marine biologists, fish breeders,
aquaculturists, and conservationists.
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It,
trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the
American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How
Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular
conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential
experience of communion with nature belies the sport's long history
of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately,
transformation. A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the
rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context.
Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to
be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding
19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way that the
burgeoning fly-fishing tourist industry shaped the environmental,
economic, and social development of the Western United States:
introducing and stocking favored fish species, eradicating the less
favored native "trash fish," changing the courses of waterways, and
leading to conflicts with Native Americans' fishing and territorial
rights. Through this analysis, Brown demonstrates that the majestic
trout streams often considered a timeless feature of the American
West are in fact the product of countless human interventions
adding up to a profound manipulation of the Rocky Mountain
environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMwEkKj9jg
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