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      2  Volume I Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Scope of the book 1.2 Reasons why this synthesis is important 1.3 Estuary definition and types 1.4 Chapter descriptions 1.5 Conclusions 1.6 References Chapter 2: Fish Assemblages and Functional Groups 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Zoogeography, salinity and estuarine fish assemblages 2.3 Estuarine typology and fish assemblages 2.4 Fish guilds and functional groups 2.5 Do functional groups drive fish assemblage structure? 2.6 Fish functional groups and guild analyses 2.7 Acknowledgements 2.8 References Chapter 3: Reproduction, Ontogeny and Recruitment 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Estuarine support of reproduction and recruitment 3.3 Early‐life stages and recruitment dynamics 3.4 Adults and recruitment 3.5 Threats to reproduction and recruitment in estuaries 3.6 Case studies 3.7 Summary and conclusions 3.8 Acknowledgements 3.9 References Chapter 4: Habitat Use and Connectivity 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Habitat diversity 4.3 Geomorphological and hydrological variables 4.4 Physico‐chemical variables 4.5 Dynamics of juvenile habitat use 4.6 Adult habitat use 4.7 Habitat fidelity by juveniles and adult fishes 4.8 Ecological context 4.9 Connectivity between estuarine, freshwater and marine ecosystems 4.10 Conclusions 4.11 Acknowledgements 4.12 References Chapter 5: Feeding Ecology and Trophic Dynamics 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Fish foraging behaviour and food intake 5.3 Factors influencing feeding ecology 5.4 Ecotrophomorphology 5.5 Trophic categorization 5.6 Competition, resource partitioning, energy flow and connectivity 5.7 FishBase approach to Functional Feeding Groups 5.8 Fish food sources in estuaries 5.9 Food web complexity 5.10 Predators of fish in estuaries 5.11 Effects of natural and anthropogenic perturbations on food webs 5.12 Acknowledgements 5.13 References Chapter 6: Fishes and Estuarine Environmental Health 6.1 Estuarine environmental health: concepts, definitions and assessment 6.2 Anthropogenic pressures impacting estuarine fish assemblages 6.3 Fish biomarkers responding to human pressures 6.4 Fishes as biological indicators 6.5 Main methodological approaches to assess estuarine health using fish as indicators 6.6 Environmental health fish‐based indices 6.7 Disentangling fish responses in the multi‐stress context of global changes 6.8 Future research directions 6.9 References Chapter 7: Climate Change

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