Migration
Subtitle: mechanisms and adaptive significance
By: edited by Mary Ann Rankin ; in association with David Checkley ... [et al.].
Contributors: University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Series: Contributions in marine science -- v. 27
Publisher: Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Port Aransas, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 868
Subjects: Animal migration; Congresses; Human beings; Migrations; Animal Behavior; Orientation
Notes: Cover title.

"Proceedings of a symposium held 30 October to 2 November 1983 at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, Tex., as a part of the centennial celebration of the University of Texas"--Pref.

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Migration, behavioral and ecological / John S. Kennedy; title: Migration and life histories / Hugh Dingle; title: Vertical migrations in the oceanic realm : possible causes and probable effects / M.V. Angel; title: Experimental approaches to the study of vertical migration of zooplankton / Mark Huntley; title: Adaptive value of vertical migration : comments on the predation hypothesis and some alternatives / W. Charles Kerfoot; title: Comparative mechanisms of algal movement in relation to phytoplankton production / S.I. Heaney, C. Butterwick; title: Diel vertical migration by dinoflagellates : roles of carbohydrate metabolism and behavioral flexibility / John J. Cullen; title: Nutrient-induced migrations of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) / Andrew R. Klemer; title: Differential migration of cryptophyceae in Lake Constance / Ulrich Sommer; title: A survey of protozoan laboratory temperature studies applied to marine dinoflagellate behavior from a field perspective / Daniel Kamykowski; title: Evolution and mechanisms of mass single-file migration in spiny lobster : synopsis / William F. Herrnkind; title: Migratory mollusks, with emphasis on swimming and orientation in the sea hare, Aplysia / P.V. Hamilton; title: Adaptive significance of short-range diel migration differences in a seagrass-meadow snail population / Christopher L. Kitting; title: Directional movement in a sea star (Oreaster reticulatus) : adaptive significance and ecological consequences / Robert E. Scheibling; title: Factors influencing the limits of migratory movements in terrestrial crustaceans / Thomas G. Wolcott, Donna L. Wolcott; title: The role of migrations in the life history evolution of fish / William C. Leggett; title: Comparative migratory and reproductive strategies of the sympatric anadromous coregonine species of James Bay / Julian J. Dodson, Yvan Lambert, Louis Bernatchez; title: Oceanic migrations of Atlantic eels (Anguilla spp.) : adults and their offspring / James D. McCleave, Robert C. Kleckner; title: Migration and utilization of estuarine nurseries by juvenile fishes : an evolutionary perspective / J.M. Miller, L.B. Crowder, M.L. Moser; title: Homing and the evolution of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) / Thomas P. Quinn; title: An overview of dispersal in non-volant small mammals / William Z. Lidicker, Jr.; title: The evolution of sexual differences in natal dispersal : a test of Greenwood's hypothesis / Charles A. Brandt; title: Endocrine influences on natal dispersal in Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi) / K.E. Holekamp, H.B. Simpson, L. Smale; title: Migrations and dispersal of bats (Chiroptera) / M. Brock Fenton, Donald W. Thomas; title: Sex-specific dynamics of aggregation and dispersal in reptiles and amphibians / A. Ross Kiester; title: Seasonal migration and nesting site fidelity in the green iguana / B.C. Bock, A.S. Rand, G.M. Burghardt; title: Long range movements of large terrestrial mammals / Dale R. McCullough; title: Exploration and navigation : the foundation of vertebrate migration / R. Robin Baker; title: Roles of the ocean in the early spread of man / T. Heyerdahl; title: The temporal and spatial scales of migration in relation to environmental changes in time and space / Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr.; title: Laboratory and field studies of avian migratory orientation / Kenneth P. Able, Jeffrey D. Cherry; title: Physiology and genetics of avian migration / Peter Berthold; title: Ontogeny of migratory orientation : a look at the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca / V.P. Bingman, W. Beck, W. Wiltschko; title: Intraspecific variation in avian migration : evolutionary and regulatory aspects / Ellen D. Ketterson, Val Nolan Jr.; title: Strategies of migratory flight, illustrated by Arctic and common terns, Sterna paradisaea and Sterna hirundo / Thomas Alerstam; title: The influence of weather on orientation and numbers of avian migrants over eastern Canada : a review / W. John Richardson; title: Fitness, population dynamics and migration in planthoppers : the role of host plants / Robert F. Denno; title: Insect migration strategies and population dynamics / Christer Solbreck; title: Ecological genetics of wing length, flight propensity, and early fecundity in a migratory insect / James O. Palmer; title: Wing polymorphism in waterstriders (Gerridae : Hemiptera) : mechanism and fitness differences between morphs / Anthony J. Zera; title: The adaptive significance and control of migratory behavior in the grasshopper Melanoplus sanguinipes / M. Lynne McAnelly; title: Butterfly migration in the boundary layer / Thomas J. Walker; title: Ecological factors which influence migratory behavior in two butterflies of the semi-arid shrublands of south Texas / L.E. Gilbert; title: New perspectives on the migration biology of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L. / Lincoln P. Brower; title: Migration strategies of monarch butterflies / K. Schmidt-Koenig; title: Hormonally mediated events in adult monarch butterflies / William S. Herman; title: Endocrine influence on flight behavior / M.A. Rankin.