Table of Contents

Preface.- Chapter 1 – Revisiting Spawning Aggregations: Definitions and Challenges.-Chapter 2 - Ecosystem aspects of species that aggregate to spawn.-Chapter 3 - Why spawn in aggregations?.-Chapter 4 – Spawning Aggregations is Reef Fishes; Ecological and Evolutionary Processes.- Chapter 5 - Timing and location of Aggregation and spawning in reef fishes.- Chapter 6 - oceanography of the planktonic stages of Aggregation Spawning Reef fishes.- Chapter 7 - Aggregation Spawning: Biological Aspects of the Early Life History.- Chapter 8 - Fishery and biological implications of fishing spawning aggregations, and the social and economic importance of aggregating fishes.- Chapter 9 – Studying and Monitoring Aggregating Species.- Chapter 10 - The role of local ecological knowledge in the conservation and management of reef fish spawning aggregations.- Chapter 11 - Management of Spawning Aggregations.- Chapter 12  - Species case studies.- Chapter 13 -  Conclusion.- Glossary.- Abbreviations.- Index.