Aquatic Animal Nutrition A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals
This book is a unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology and aquaculture. It shows how diets structure the digestive tract and its microbiota and, in turn, the microbiota influences life history traits of its host, including behavior. Short-term starv
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Aquatic Animal Nutrition
A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations
Aquatic Animal Nutrition
Christian E. W. Steinberg
Aquatic Animal Nutrition A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations
Christian E. W. Steinberg Department of Biology Humboldt University at Berlin Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-91766-5 ISBN 978-3-319-91767-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91767-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018953153 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Never attend an expedition to Vietnam that is devoted to the study of freshwater and marine fishes! However, if you do, you run the risk of making good new friends in the commercial and ornamental fish business, sharing some (too many!) Tiger beers and promising to spread new information about the nutrition of fish and other aquatic animals. I took that risk, went to Vietnam, made new friends, and fell in love with South (East) Asia. Several years have passed since then, and experts, as well as laypersons, have had to tolerate and survive several seminars on aquatic animal nutrition, given by me. Now, it is time to keep my promise. A freshwater ecologist by education and a stress ecologist by preference, my primary interest has not been to write a book that discusses higher productivity in the aquaculture industries or reviews recipes for more effective functional aquafeeds to increase survival, reproduction or productivity of farmed animals. Instead, I am more interested in answering the question of how certain dietary ingredients influence the life history traits not only of the consumers but also of their succeeding generations. In evolution
