Extremophile Fishes Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Riesch, Rüdiger (Editor), Tobler, Michael (Editor), Plath, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Aquatic ecology.; Animal anatomy.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Animal Ecology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Animal Physiology.

This book summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions. It reviews the most recent research on acidic, Antarctic, cave, desert, hypersaline, hypoxic, temporary, and fast-flowing habitats, as well as naturally and anthropogenically toxic...

Table of Contents:

• Extremophile fishes: An Introduction
• Low-Oxygen Lifestyles
• The Adaptive Radiation of Notothenioid Fishes in the Waters of Antarctica
• Desert Environments
• Hypersaline Environments
• Life in the Fast Lane: A Review of Rheophily in Freshwater Fishes
• Hydrogen Sulfide-Toxic Habitats
• Cave Environments
• Pickled Fish Anyone?
• Temporary Environments
• Evolutionary Toxicology: Population Adaptation in Response to Anthropogenic Pollution
• Extremophile fishes: an integrative synthesis.