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Edited By
Jeffrey Richards, Department of Zoology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Anthony Farrell, Professor, Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture, UBC Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research (CAER), and Faculty of Land and Food
Systems, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Colin Brauner, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Fish Physiology, 27
Description
Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such as
diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding, stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely vegetated
water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes (e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not surprising that
among all vertebrates, fish boast the largest number of hypoxia tolerant species; hypoxia has clearly played an important role in shaping
the evolution of many unique adaptive strategies. These unique adaptive strategies either allow fish to maintain function at low oxygen
levels, thus extending hypoxia tolerance limits, or permit them to defend against the metabolic consequences of oxygen levels that fall
below a threshold where metabolic functions cannot be maintained.
The aim of this volume is two-fold. First, this book will review
and synthesize the adaptive behavioural, morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish to survive
hypoxia exposure and place them within an environmental and ecological context. Second, through the development of a synthesis chapter
this book will serve as the cornerstone for directing future research into the effects of hypoxia exposures on fish physiology and biochemistry.
Audience
* Research and Post-graduate scientists studying the physiology of fishes and the impact of extreme and environmentally degraded environments
on fish physiology and survival
* Comparative Vertebrate Physiologists studying adaptations to oxygen stress
* Biomedical and sports
physiologists interested in animal models of stress under low oxygen conditions
Contents
Chapter 1 - THE HYPOXIC ENVIRONMENT
Robert J. Diaz and Denise L. Breitburg
Chapter 2 - BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
Lauren J. Chapman and David J. McKenzie
Chapter 3 - EFFECTS OF HYPOXIA ON FISH REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Rudolf Wu
Chapter 4 -
OXYGEN AND CAPACITY LIMITED THERMAL TOLERANCE
Hans O. P rtner and Gisela Lannig
Chapter 5 - OXYGEN SENSING AND THE HYPOXIC VENTILATORY
RESPONSE
Steve F. Perry, Mike G. Jonz and Kathleen M. Gilmour
Chapter 6 - BLOOD-GAS TRANSPORT AND HAEMOGLOBIN FUNCTION: ADAPTATIONS
FOR FUNCTIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOXIA
Rufus M.G. Wells
Chapter 7 - CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION AND CARDIAC METABOLISM DURING ENVIRONMENTAL
HYPOXIA
Kurt Gamperl and William R. Driedzic
Chapter 8 - IMPACTS OF HYPOXIA ON GROWTH AND DIGESTION
Tobais Wang, Sjannie Lefevre, Do
Thi Thanh houng, Nguyen Van Cong, Mark Bayley
Chapter 9 - THE ANOXIA-TOLERANT CRUCIAN CARP (CARASSIUS CARASSIUS L.)
Matti Vornanen,
Jonathan A. W. Stecyk and G ran E. Nilsson
Chapter 10 - METABOLIC AND MOLECULAR RESPONSES OF FISH TO HYPOXIA
Jeffrey G. Richards
Chapter
11 - VOLUME SYNTHESIS
Tony Farrell and Jeffrey G. Richards
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Hardbound, 517 pages, publication date: MAR-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374632-0
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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