10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTRANATANT»
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On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations
Let us suppose that the effect of a current is to cause fish to orientate
preferentially in a contranatant direction, that is, that a fish is more likely to be
facing into than away from the current at any moment. The existence of
preferential contranatant ...
Raymond J.H. Beverton, Sidney J. Holt, 1993
These movements are described as denatant and contranatant, respectively (
Meek, 1915). Denatant means swimming, drifting or migrating with the current;
contranatant means swimming or migrating against the current. In the classic ...
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The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster
The possible consequence of short pereiopods is that contranatant migration of
lobsters to correct for displacement following nisto settlement downstream of
adult lobster habitats may be limited, as opposed to the case in the longer-legged
...
Kari L. Lavalli, Ehud Spanier, 2007
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The Biology of Sea Turtles
Adult inter-nesting and/or breeding habitat. . Denatant Migration Contranatant
Migration Denatant Migration Ujvenile Nursery Habitat Dually Petagic & Oceanic)
[w. t ] Juvenile Developmental Habitat '"'ei ffl (Usually Demersal & Neritic)
FIGURE ...
Peter L. Lutz, John A. Musick, 1996
Denatant and contranatant movements. These two terms are applied for the
movements of the fishes in relation to water current Denatant refers swimming or
migrating with the current of water, for e.g., the movement of the pelagic eggs.
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Fishery Science: The Unique Contributions of Early Life Stages
... 233, 238–239, 259 contranatant/denatant migration cycle see migration,
contranatant/denatant convergence zone see hydrography, convergence zone
convergent front see hydrography, front, convergent conversion efficiency (K1)
281, 282 ...
Lee A. Fuiman, Robert G. Werner, 2009
Let us suppose that the effect of a current is to cause fish to orientate
preferentially in a contranatant direction, that is, that a fish is more likely to be
facing into than away from the current at any moment. The existence of
preferential contranatant ...
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Behaviour, Migrations, Distribution, and Stocks of Sturgeons ...
Meek (1916) also introduced the terms “denatant” and “contranatant” to
designate migrations ... migratory fish may be regarded as anadromous or
catadromous in a certain period of its life cycle and denatant or contranatant in
another period.
R. P. Khodorevskaya, G. I. Ruban, D. S. Pavlov, 2009
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
contranatant adj. Referring to swimming, moving, or migrating against water
current (Lincoln et al. 1985). cf. denatant ♢contranym n. A word, or phrase, that is
an antonym of itself through distortion, if not misuse (Safire 1997, 4 May, 22). syn.
Fulton (19 1 3) showed the main plaice migratory spawning movement to be
contranatant, northwards from the Firth of Forth along the east coast to the Moray
Firth, with extensions to Orkney and thence westwards along the north coast.
