"We were still in our thirties when Julie Anne, Georgie and I walked up the valley that first time.Purchase negotiations for the thirty hectares took a few weeks. More important than price, the owners wanted reassurance that we would take proper care of two horses that lived on its swampy paddocks.We were not buying the property, they were selling it to us. We had to be fit for the job."An off-grid house on New Zealand's Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil...

Integrative Fish Biomechanics, Volume 41, the latest release in the Fish Physiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting insightful chapters written by leading experts. Covering a wide range of topics, this edition explores the intricate hydrodynamics and biomechanics of fish feeding, swimming, and terrestrial locomotion. It delves into the structural and functional properties of fish tissues, providing a deeper understanding of their mechanical adaptat...

BEHAVIOR OF MARINE FISHESBEHAVIOR OF MARINE FISHES:Capture Processes and Conservation ChallengesUnderstanding fish behavior in relation to capture processes in marine fisheries is of fundamental importance to reducing bycatch and discards, and to enhancing marine fisheries conservation efforts. A thorough understanding of this allows commercial fishers to more effectively capture target species while reducing the catch of unwanted s...

Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding, stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes (e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not surprising that among all vertebrates, fish boast the largest number of hypoxia tolerant species; hypoxia...

Fish form an extremely diverse group of vertebrates. At a conservative estimate at least 40% of the world's vertebrates are fish. On the one hand they are united by their adaptations to an aquatic environment and on the other they show a variety of adaptations to differing environmental conditions - often to extremes of temperature, salinity, oxygen level and water chemistry. They exhibit an array of behavioural and reproductive systems. Interesting in their own right, this suite of adapti...

In FISHING SEASON, acclaimed author Philip Weigall deftly captures all that makes the wonderful sport of flyfishing a passion for so many. It is a reflective book, an engrossing read that captures the heart and soul of this pastime that is so full of challenges, victories, disappointments, frustrations but, most of all, quiet happiness. So join Philip as he takes you through a year in the life of a flyfisher and ponders such important questions as why an organised fly box is rarer than a 1...

Written by an international team of experts from the Tara Oceans Marine Biology Imaging Platform (TAOMI), this is the first and only compendium on marine imaging technologies, and includes all known underwater as well as on-land techniques.TAOMI is imaging the largest collection of marine organisms in recent history, ranging from viruses to corals, and is duplicated on land to perform high throughput confocal analysis of plankton, X-ray tomography as well as cryo-electron microscopy...

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of sharks, skates, rays, and chimera. This edition presents current research as well as traditional models, to provide future researchers with solid historical foundations in shark research as well as presenting current trends from which to develop new frontiers in their own work.Traditional areas of stud...

A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime.How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked. And, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall.Due to this childhood interest, the vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows o...

This open access book offers a comprehensive and scientifically accurate account of the ecological impact and biological consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident. As a continuation of the previous volume published in 2020, this new volume provides updates and incorporates new findings.Overview introduces the "Dose assessment project for animals affected by the FNPP accident". It addresses the significance of fieldwork and discusses issues and challe...

THE NEUROETHOLOGY OF PREDATION AND ESCAPETo eat and not get eaten is key to animal survival, and the arms race between predators and prey has driven the evolution of many rapid and spectacular behaviours.This book explores the neural mechanisms controlling predation and escape, where specialisations in afferent pathways, central circuits, motor control and biomechanics can be traced through to natural animal behaviour.Each...

I hope that you will find the content helpful, useful and profitable.The information in this ebook on various aspects of Thailand and life in Thailand is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.I hope that it will interest those who have visited Thailand or intent to do so.As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own wor...