Symposium review: biology,ecology and life history of bluefish

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries -     

Essay review: Museums: Revisiting sites in the history of the natural sciences

Mary P. Winsor,Reading the shape of Nature: Comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum (Chacago: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Ronald Rainger,An Agenda for Antiquty: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertedrate Paleontology at the American Meseum of Natural History, 1890–1935 (Tuscaloosa: University of Aladama Press, 1991).     

Essay review: The politics of Writing Biology

Greg Myers, Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).     

Essay review

Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, edited by Gordon C. Grigg, Frank Seebacher, and Craig E. Franklin, 2001. Surrey Beatty and Sons (43 Rickard Road, Chipping Norton 2170 NSW, Australia), x+446p. ISBN 0-949-324 89-2 (hardback), Aust$99     

Essay review: The Correspondence of the young Darwin

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume I, 1821–1836; Volume II, 1837–1843 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 1986).     

Research on fish ecology in Japan: a brief history and selected review

Fish play an important role in the culture of Japan, supplying the primary source of food protein. Research on fish ecology in Japan began developing about 1955, and paralleled that in North America and Europe, but has a number of unique differences. Two main research foci, stream fish ecology and ecology of Lake Biwa, were founded by H. Kawanabe and his colleagues while graduate students in D. Miyadi's laboratory at Kyoto University in the 1950s. The focus on studies of individual differences in ecology, life history, and behavior by direct observation that were developed in this laboratory had a pervasive influence on research that has continued to the present. In the 1980s, Kawanabe, who had succeeded Miyadi as laboratory head, also co-organized a major research project on the complex communities of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika, which has involved nearly every major Japanese investigator in fish ecology since. A review of research conducted by Japanese investigators in stream fish ecology, ecology of fishes in lakes Biwa and Tanganyika, and marine reef fish ecology revealed a wealth of literature of which most English-speaking fish ecologists are unaware. The most striking difference between Western and Japanese research is the focus on detailed observations and experiments in natural habitats of individual differences in behavior, life history, and ecology, and how these ultimately affect processes at the population and community level, as amply demonstrated by Kawanabe's early work on ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis. This approach predated by 20–30 years the current interest in individual differences and individual-based models in North America and Europe.