The distribution of potassium conductance across the surface of retinal glial (Müller) cells was determined in three species of fishes: two teleosts, the goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), and an elasmobranch, the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Potassium conductance was measured by monitoring cell depolarizations evoked by focal ejections of a 15 mEq/L K+ s...

Intraspecific phenotypic variation in ecologically important traits is widespread and important for evolutionary processes, but its effects on community and ecosystem processes are poorly understood. We use life history differences among populations of alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, to test the effects of intraspecific phenotypic variation in a predator on pelagic zooplankton community structu...

The construction of dams and tide gates on waterways has altered the physical structure many coastal, estuarine, freshwater systems. These changes have come at a cost to fish populations, most notably diadromous species, which rely connectivity between marine anthropogenic structures can direct effects migrating fish, such as blocking passage, or more subtle effects, changing movement patterns....

—Anadromous river herring (alewives Alosa pseudoharengus and blueback herring A. aestivalis), which constitute a historically and ecologically important component of coastal rivers, have declined precipitously throughout the Atlantic seaboard. Suggested causes of river herring decline include commercial fishing and predation by striped bass Morone saxatilis. Although the causes of this recent t...