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A concise primer that introduces students to the basic concepts, opportunities, and challenges of aquaculture with an emphasis on ecological considerations, providing a critical assessment of current aquaculture practices from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective.
List of contents
- Preface
- Part I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL AQUACULTURE
- 1: Aquaculture Terminology and Basic Concepts
- 2: The Historical Origins of Aquaculture
- 3: Seafood and Beyond: Key Aquaculture Objectives
- 4: Aquaculture Systems as Mesocosms
- 5: Integrated Multitrophic Polycultures
- 6: Domestication of Aquaculture Species
- Part II: BIOLOGY AND CULTURE OF AQUATIC SPECIES
- 7: Overview of Aquaculture Species Diversity
- 8: Environmentally Sustainable Plant Aquaculture
- 9: Aquaculture of Sponges and Cnidarians
- 10: Mollusc Aquaculture
- 11: Crustacean Aquaculture
- 12: Ornamental Fishes
- 13: Aquaculture of Freshwater Fish
- 14: Anadromous Fish
- 15: Catadromous Fish
- Part III: WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS
- 16: Abiotic Parameters
- 17: Feeds, Waste, and Stress
- 18: Infectious Diseases
About the author
Dietmar Kültz is a Professor of Physiological Genomics at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA. His laboratory focuses on investigating the mechanisms of stress-induced evolution in fish and marine invertebrates. His research spans molecular to organism levels of biological complexity and utilizes reductionist synthetic biology, biochemical, and holistic systems level approaches to dissect causality between environmental effects on cells and organisms, physiological responses, and complex adaptive phenotypes. He teaches a molecular genetics laboratory course, an introductory aquaculture course, and a stress physiology course at UC Davis. Professor Kültz received his BSc/MS and doctoral degrees from the University of Rostock in Germany. He was a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at Oregon State University, a Fogarty Visiting Fellow at the NIH (Bethesda), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida before joining the faculty at UC Davis
Summary
A concise primer that introduces students to the basic concepts, opportunities, and challenges of aquaculture with an emphasis on ecological considerations, providing a critical assessment of current aquaculture practices from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective.
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Readers can obtain an excellent overall summation of the problems and ways forward as people rely more and more on augmented fish and seafood production. Though the style is technical, this primer is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students in various fields, including ecology, geography, and more.
