Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-8

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2. Scale-eating in characoids and other fishes

   • Ivan Sazima

   Pages 9-23

3. Grazing responses of tropical freshwater fishes to different scales of variation in their food

   • Mary E. Power

   Pages 25-38

4. Fish communities along environmental gradients in a system of tropical streams

   • Paul L. Angermeier, James R. Karr

   Pages 39-58

5. Detritivory in neotropical fish communities

   • Stephen H. Bowen

   Pages 59-66

6. The evolutionary ecology of respiratory mode in fishes: an analysis based on the costs of breathing

   • Donald L. Kramer

   Pages 67-80

7. Evolutionary genetics of trophic differentiation in goodeid fishes of the genus Ilyodon

   • Bruce J. Turner, Thaddeus A. Grudzien, Karen P. Adkisson, Matthew M. White

   Pages 81-94

8. Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes

   • John A. Endler

   Pages 95-111

9. Gondwana and neotropical galaxioid fish biogeography

   • Hugo Campos

   Pages 113-126

10. On measuring niches and not measuring them

    • Thomas M. Zaret, Eric P. Smith

    Pages 127-138

11. The status of studies on South American freshwater food fishes

    • Rosemary H. Lowe-McConnell

    Pages 139-156

12. Epilogue

    • Thomas M. Zaret

    Pages 157-157

13. Ecologìa evolutiva de peces neotropicales de agua dulce

    • Thomas M. Zaret

    Pages 159-164

14. Ecologia evolutiva de peixes neotropicais de agua doce

    • Thomas M. Zaret

    Pages 165-170

15. Back Matter

    Pages 171-175

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In August of 1980, near the whistlestop of Maltby, Surely, we would plead, the U. S. A. , a wealthy Washington, Don Stewart and I met in my rented nation,can fund our proposal if only as a gesture of house trailer to sketch a proposal to the National support to foreign scientists. Somehow, however, Science Foundation. Our goal was simple: to re­ we seemed to miss deadlines, fall in-between the quest from the Foundation air fare and per diem for cracks, and miss the right connections. It was not approximately 20 Latin American scientists to at­ until May, 1982, several weeks before the proposed tend a workshop entitled the 'Systematics and workshop, that we realized we could not find any Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater funds for bringing Latin American scientists to the Fishes' that would follow the 1982 ASIH (Ameri­ U. S. The programs for the meeting had been can Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) printed, the meal coupons, banquet tickets, and all meeting. We had presented an initial outline for our the other amenities that come with a professional proposal to a number ofcolleagues in . June of 1980 meeting were ready, but we had no Latin American at the ASIH meeting at Texas Christian University ichthyologists as participants. Some abstracts were in Fort Worth, Texas. The steering committee for being received by the program organizers, but the workshop, consisting of a dozen senior scien­ without U. S.

• ecology
• evolution
• systematics

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