Biology of Stress in Fish

Biology of Stress in Fish provides general understanding regarding stress biology, including most of the recent advances in the field. The book starts with a general discussion of stress - what stress is, the nature of the physiological stress response, and factors that affect the stress response. It also considers biotic and abiotic factors that cause variation in the stress response, how the stress response is generated and controlled, stress effects on physiological and organismic function and performance, and applied assessment of stress, animal welfare, and stress as related to model species. the definitive reference on stress in fish, written by world-reknowned experts in the fieldincludes the most recent advances and up-to-date thinking about the causes of stress in fish, the implications, and how to minimise the negative effects