Contemporary studies on fish feeding : the proceedings of GUTSHOP '84 : papers from the fourth workshop on fish food habits held at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A., December 2-6, 1984

GUTSHOP '84 was the fourth in a series of workshops on various aspects of fish feeding (Table 1). Initially, the organizers merely invited regional (Pacific Northwest) fisheries scientists to share, and possibly develop mutual solutions to, the many technical problems associated with trying to obtain meaningful, quantitative information from fish stomach contents, and the subsequent statistical treatment and interpretation of the multivariate data. Since then, although not explicitly based upon any internal cycle, these scientists and increasingly more and more dispersed colleagues continued to congregate for workshop deliberations every two or three years. From the 49 attendees at the first workshop, the number of participants had grown to 65 at GUTSHOP '78, and 107 at GUTSHOP '81. By the third workshop, we were drawing scientists from across the U. S. and Canada, and from as far away as Norway. The topical content of the workshops has also evolved from the predominantly technical aspects of fish collection and stomach contents processing techniques, statistical analysis, and data manipulation and presentation to considerations of theoretical ecology, bioenergetics, and behavior. Front Matter....Pages 1-9 Types of feeding in the ontogeny of fishes and the life-history model....Pages 11-24 Foraging behaviour in fishes: perspectives on variance....Pages 25-34 Mythical models of gastric emptying and implications for food consumption studies....Pages 35-50 Patterns of food evacuation in fishes: a critical review....Pages 51-58 The physiology of digestion in fish larvae....Pages 59-78 Feeding by larvae of Hypoatherina tropicalis (Pisces: Atherinidae) and its relation to prey availability in One Tree Lagoon, Great Barrier Reef, Australia....Pages 79-94 When to feed: decision making in sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus ....Pages 95-104 The relationship of diet to growth and ammonium excretion in salt marsh fish....Pages 105-112 Feeding rate and attack specialization: the roles of predator experience and energetic tradeoffs....Pages 113-122 Foraging in surfperches: resource partitioning or individualistic responses?....Pages 123-134 Food acquisition by competing surfperch on a patchy environmental gradient....Pages 135-146 Ecological and morphological shifts in Lake Michigan fishes: glimpses of the ghost of competition past....Pages 147-158 Predator-mediated habitat use: some consequences for species interactions....Pages 159-170 Effect of regurgitation on stomach content data of marine fishes....Pages 171-182 Recent developments for making gastric evacuation and daily ration determinations....Pages 183-192 Site-specific differences in the feeding ecology of the California sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher (Labridae)....Pages 193-204 Predator-prey interactions in Lake Michigan: model predictions and recent dynamics....Pages 205-212 The effect of the choice of evacuation model on the estimation of feeding rate....Pages 213-218 Use of modeling to investigate potential feeding strategies of parasitic lampreys....Pages 219-224 Incorporating fish food habits data into fish population assessment models....Pages 225-234 Fish predation and local prey diversity....Pages 235-258 Physiology of feeding and starvation tolerance in overwintering freshwater fishes....Pages 259-268 Diurnal feeding and prey size selection in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar , alevins....Pages 269-284 Piscivory in a coral reef fish community....Pages 285-298 An analysis of the feeding rate of white crappie....Pages 299-306 Within-sample variabilities in stomach contents weight of fish — implications for field studies of consumption rate....Pages 307-314 An alternative to the fullness index....Pages 315-320 Contemporary studies on fish feeding: summary of GUTSHOP ’84....Pages 321-326 Back Matter....Pages 327-334 Our knowledge of the structure and dispersal of "Plants, seeds and currents" in the Westindies tropical fruits and seeds is very limited up to the and Azores.