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摘要

Gasping Fish and Panting Squids: Oxygen, Temperature and the Growth of Water-Breathing Animals by Daniel Pauly (author), O. Kinne (editor). 2010. International Ecology Institute. Excellence in Ecology: Book 22. ISSN 0932-2205 (hardcover). 216 p. US$60.00. Most marine biologists have likely struggled to fully grasp the many interconnected theories that attempt to explain the growth and physiology of marine organisms. In Gasping Fish and Panting Squid: Oxygen, Temperature, and the Growth of Water-Breathing Animals, Daniel Pauly presents a well conceived, unifying theory that brings a unique perspective and thought provoking challenges to many of the dogmatic theories regarding the physiology, and growth of marine fishes and invertebrates. Pauly's focus on oxygen limitation as a controlling factor throughout the lives of marine organisms is an interesting argument in the least, but is more likely an overdue reinterpretation of long-established and broadly accepted theories in marine biology.