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

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 waters, while pointing out generalities that are evident across different study systems. Knowledge of the different adaptations that allow fish to cope with stressful environmental conditions furthers our understanding of basic physiological, ecological, and evolutionary principles. In several cases, evidence is provided for how the adaptation to extreme environments promotes the emergence of new species. Furthermore, a link is made to conservation biology, and how human activities have exacerbated existing extreme environments and created new ones. The book concludes with a discussion of major open questions in our understanding of the ecology and evolution of life in extreme environments. Note from the editor-in-chief: "A very original issue" -- -- Introduction / -- Patricio Ferrari ; -- Jer©đnimo Pizarro -- Fernando Pessoa as English reader and writer. "Barrowby," boys' books, and how to make literature -- Richard Zenith Pessoa, Anon, and the Natal Colony : retracing an imperial matrix -- Stefan Helgesson World War I : Europe, Africa, and the "O Menino da sua m©Đe" -- George Monteiro Notes on the modernist long poem in the writing of Fernando Pessoa's heteronym ©lvaro de Campos and T. S. Eliot -- Pauly Ellen Bothe Mediating transnational reception in Portuguese modernism : Fernando Pessoa and the English magazines -- Patricia Silva McNeill "History of a dictatorship" : an unfinished political essay by the young Fernando Pessoa -- -- Jos©♭ Barreto ; -- translated by: -- Mario Pereira Pessoa and Keats -- Mariana Gray de Castro Art of drama according to Browning and Pessoa -- Fl©Łvio Rodrigo Penteado ; -- Caio Gagliardi ; -- translated by: -- Luciano de Souza ; -- Serena Rivera Pessoa's Walter Pater : archival material from a reading story -- Jorge Uribe Four unpublished English sonnets -- Patricio Ferrari ; -- Carlos Pittella-Leite -- Fiction. "Very original dinner" -- Fernando Pessoa ; -- with an introduction by: -- Natalia Jerez Quintero -- Essay. -- Excerpts from: "Erostratus" -- Fernando Pessoa ; -- with an introduction by: -- Filipa de Freitas -- Translation. Dryden, Keats, and Browning : unpublished translations -- Fernando Pessoa ; -- with an introduction by: -- Claudia J. Fischer ; -- translated by: -- Carole Garton -- Interview and reviews. Interview with Margaret Jull Costa -- conducted by: -- Maria de Lurdes Sampaio "Aprecia©ʹ©æes liter©Łrias de Fernando Pessoa" -- Fernando Pessoa ; -- edited by: -- Pauly Ellen Botha ; -- reviewed by: -- Patricia Silva McNeill "Eu sou uma antologia : 136 autores fict©Ưcios" -- Fernando Pessoa ; -- edited by: -- Jer©đnimo Pizarro ; -- Patricio Ferrari "No matter what we dream : selected English poems -- Fernando Pessoa ;-- edited by:-- Patricio Ferrari ;-- Jer©đnimo Pizarro ;-- reviewed by:-- Susan Margaret Brown. "For many decades, José Saramago has been a staunch defender of the role of literature to both serve and be perceived as public discourse. When, in October 1998, he became the first Portuguese-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, his conviction was supported by the assurance that, at any rate, this particular writer's literary discourse was guaranteed to be widely (and globally) publicized. If, as Wlad Godzich has claimed, the severely limited possibility of public discourse in the contemporary world is compensated by the ever-multiplying variety of ways to publicize discourses ("Workshop"), Saramago has taken full advantage of the opportunities offered in this respect by the Nobel prize as probably the most effective institutionalized instrument of publicity that high literary discourse which is produced worldwide has at its annual disposal. His international visibility greatly amplified, Saramago could be seen in the last two years shuttling the globe and making globally publicized statements on behalf of the many political causes that have attracted his attention and support."--Publisher's description With Pessoa's digitized private library online, the importance of English to Pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years: numerous English authors served as the bedrock from which his poetic sensibility emerged, developed and soared. In fact, a significant amount of Pessoa’s writings in English and in Portuguese (including those attributed to his heteronyms and/or to other literary personae) were greatly informed by these (his) original sources. This book provides ample evidence of his fruitful, lifelong relationship with the English language.0In addition to its thematic focus, this latest volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies features sections dedicated to unpublished materials, new transcriptions of texts Pessoa originally wrote in English and verse translations by Pessoa into Portuguese. Contributors to this volume include George Monteiro, Patricia Silva McNeill, Richard Zenith, and Stefan Helgesson. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Extremophile Fishes: An Introduction....Pages 1-7 Low-Oxygen Lifestyles....Pages 9-33 The Adaptive Radiation of Notothenioid Fishes in the Waters of Antarctica....Pages 35-57 Desert Environments....Pages 59-83 Hypersaline Environments....Pages 85-106 Life in the Fast Lane: A Review of Rheophily in Freshwater Fishes....Pages 107-136 Hydrogen Sulfide-Toxic Habitats....Pages 137-159 Cave Environments....Pages 161-191 Pickled Fish Anyone?....Pages 193-215 Temporary Environments....Pages 217-245 Evolutionary Toxicology: Population Adaptation in Response to Anthropogenic Pollution....Pages 247-277 Extremophile Fishes: An Integrative Synthesis....Pages 279-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-326