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FISH ECOLOGY |
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Fish Ecology will provide participants with
an understanding of the ways in which fish interact with each other and
their environment and the potential impacts of these interactions upon
fisheries. This course does not use a textbook, but rather integrates
knowledge from a number of current research articles to study a particular
aspect of fish ecology. Participants will become familiar with scientific
literature as well as the scientific method used to answer ecological questions. Participants
will learn how to integrate information from a variety of studies to support
or refute scientific theories and generalizations. College Credit: 3 graduate
semester hours.
Who Should Attend: Biologists, researchers, and resource managers.
Length: 5
days; 40 hours (as well as pre and post course assignments)
Topics:
- Physiology
of fish, growth and energetics;
- Fish Bioenergetics;
- Locomotion, migration and movements;
- Feeding and trophic ecology;
- Predation and predator-prey interactions;
- Habitat and scale of measurement;
- Top-down vs. Bottom-up effects and control;
- Ecology of lotic systems;
- Ecology of lentic systems;
- Reproduction and life history traits and
guilds;
- Early life history studies;
- Competition;
- Invasion ecology;
- Fish and Physical Fronts; and
- Importance of size to ecological interactions/Fish
management and fish ecology.
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| Contact: |
Alan Temple |
| Branch: |
Conservation Science & Policy Branch |
| Phone: |
304/876-7440 |
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National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443
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