Evolutionary ecology of neotropical freshwater fishes : proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Systematics and Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes, held at DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.A., June 14-18, 1982

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. 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 Front Matter....Pages 1-8 Scale-eating in characoids and other fishes....Pages 9-23 Grazing responses of tropical freshwater fishes to different scales of variation in their food....Pages 25-38 Fish communities along environmental gradients in a system of tropical streams....Pages 39-58 Detritivory in neotropical fish communities....Pages 59-66 The evolutionary ecology of respiratory mode in fishes: an analysis based on the costs of breathing....Pages 67-80 Evolutionary genetics of trophic differentiation in goodeid fishes of the genus Ilyodon ....Pages 81-94 Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes....Pages 95-111 Gondwana and neotropical galaxioid fish biogeography....Pages 113-126 On measuring niches and not measuring them....Pages 127-138 The status of studies on South American freshwater food fishes....Pages 139-156 Epilogue....Pages 157-157 Ecologìa evolutiva de peces neotropicales de agua dulce....Pages 159-164 Ecologia evolutiva de peixes neotropicais de agua doce....Pages 165-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-175 Proceedings of the 1st Inernational Symposium on Systematics and Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Fishes, held at DeKalb, Illinois, USA, June 14-18, 1982