Overall, this text offers significant insight from two leading researchers in the field, and will serve as a valuable tool for those individuals who wish to delve further into the research. Essential.
Choice
This book is at once a memoir and love letter to a couple of brilliant research careers, and essential reading for those early-career scientists and ... Read moreothers entering the stream fish community ecology topic now, who need to catch up. In both regards, the book is a real pleasure to read. For agency scientists involved in biomonitoring using fishes, and stream restoration, this book should be considered a primer in just how much we do, and do not, understand about the underlying factors that dictate why fishes are where they are.
Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture
In conclusion, Stream Fish Community Dynamics-A Critical Synthesis represents a valuable synopsis of the tremendous scientific careers of Bill and Edie Matthews, careers that will continue to influence generations of future scientists.
Fisheries Magazine
Helps us rethink hypotheses about our stream fishes and their relationships to each other and to their habitat, and add context to questions related to climate change. At the end of our careers, we can only hope that our cumulative scientific work will be significant enough to be published as a book like this one.
Brooke E. Penaluna & Ivan Arismendi
Environmental Biology of Fishes
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