The Importance of Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotones for Freshwater Fish

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Notes on ecotone attributes and functions....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Land/water ecotone effects in reservoirs on the fish fauna....Pages 11-30
The role of ecotones as feeding grounds for fish fry in a Bohemian water supply reservoir....Pages 31-38
Biomass of planktonic crustaceans and the food of young cyprinids in the littoral zone of Lake Balaton....Pages 39-48
Biomanipulation by ecotone management in a lowland reservoir....Pages 49-60
Relationship between the spatial scale and biotic variability in a wetland ecotone....Pages 61-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Critical landscape attributes that influence fish population dynamics in headwater streams....Pages 71-81
River/land ecotones: scales and patterns....Pages 83-91
Riparian ecotones and spatial variation of fish assemblages in Portuguese lowland streams....Pages 93-101
Morphological variability in the ecotone — an important factor for the conservation of fish species richness in Swiss rivers....Pages 103-110
Ecotones and fluvial regimes in arctic lotic environments....Pages 111-124
Microhabitat use by two small benthic stream fish in a 2 nd order stream....Pages 125-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The dependence of fish community structure and dynamics on floodplain and riparian ecotone zone in Parana River, Brazil....Pages 141-148
An outline on lateral fish migrations within the Central Delta of the Niger River, Mali....Pages 149-157
The influence of high waters on stream fish populations in regulated rivers....Pages 159-161
Extent and role for fish populations of riverine ecotones along the Sinnamary river (French Guiana)....Pages 163-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
River restoration concepts — goals and perspectives....Pages 183-194
The effects of recreated instream and ecotone structures on the fish fauna of an epipotamal river....Pages 195-206
Effects of removal and regeneration of bankside vegetation on fish population dynamics in the Warta River, Poland....Pages 207-210
Effects of siltation on stream fishes and the potential mitigating role of the buffering riparian zone....Pages 211-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Evolutionary adaptations by fish to ecotonal complexity in spatially variable landscapes — a perspective....Pages 223-228
The genetic structure of roach populations in two contrasted large rivers....Pages 229-234
The land/inland-water ecotones and fish population of Lake Valley (West Mongolia)....Pages 235-245
Zonation of a lentic ecotone and its correspondence to life history strategies in fish....Pages 247-255
Land/Inland water ecotones: intermediate habitats critical for conservation and management....Pages 259-264