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PART THREE

Form and Function

The previous parts dealt with how fishes respond to their environments and to each other at small and large spatial and temporal scales. However, this has been largely a “phenomenological” approach (sensu, Koehl 1996), where species and individuals have been treated as “black boxes” that perform certain functions. The chapters in this part take more of a “mechanistic” approach in exploring the interactions of morphology, ecology, and evolution, and the resultant impacts on fish populations and assemblages.