Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Polar Fishes
- 1st Edition, Volume 22 - October 12, 2005
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: John F. Steffensen, Anthony Farrell
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 5 0 4 4 6 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 1 8 7 4 - 7
Volume 22 of the Fish Physiology Series is entirely devoted to fishes of high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic). Three central themes comprise the book: the uniqueness of the physi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteVolume 22 of the Fish Physiology Series is entirely devoted to fishes of high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic). Three central themes comprise the book: the uniqueness of the physiology of fishes that live in cold polar environments, a comparative analysis of physiological patterns exemplified by fishes that live poles apart and, how fishes differ from fishes living in more temperate and tropical habitats.
Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Polar Fishes highlights the physiological adaptations that evolved to allow certain fish to exploit the frigid, yet productive, Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. The reader will explore what is known, as well as what remains undiscovered, concerning the fish indigenous to both polar regions. This will be of great interest to physiologists, ichthyologists, and comparative biologists researching low temperature biology, fishery scientists, faculty, graduate students.
- Offers an comparative analysis of the arctic and antarctic polar marine environments
- Authors answer the question: What is special about the physiology of fish from the stenothermal Arctic and Antarctic environments?
- Includes nine descriptive chapters, 40 tables and over 80 figures
Physiologists, ichthyologists, comparative biologists interested in low temperature biology, fishery scientists, and Faculty, graduates students and researchers in these and other disciplines related to oceanography and marine biology.
Chapter 1. The Arctic and Antarctic Polar Marine Environments
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and John F. Steffensen
Chapter 2. Systematic of Polar Fishes
Contributors: Peter R. Mller, Jrgen G. Neilsen, and M. Eric Anderson
Chapter 3. Metabolic Biochemistry: Its Role in Thermal Tolerance and in the Capacities
of Physiological and Ecological Function
Contributors: H. O. Pörtner, M. Lucassen, and D. Storch
Chapter 4. Antifreeze Proteins and Organismal Freezing Avoidance in Polar Fishes
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and C.-H. Christina Cheng
Chapter 5. Respiratory Systems and Metabolic Rates
Contributors: John F. Steffensen
Chapter 6. The Circulatory System and its Control
Contributors: M. Axelsson
Chapter 7. Blood Gas Transport and Haemoglobin Function in Polar Fishes: Does Lower
Temperature Explain Physiological Characters?
Contributors: RMG Wells
Chapter 8. Antarctic Fish Skeletal Muscle and Locomotion
Contributors: William Davison
Chapter 9. The Nervous System
Contributors: John McDonald and John Montgomery
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and John F. Steffensen
Chapter 2. Systematic of Polar Fishes
Contributors: Peter R. Mller, Jrgen G. Neilsen, and M. Eric Anderson
Chapter 3. Metabolic Biochemistry: Its Role in Thermal Tolerance and in the Capacities
of Physiological and Ecological Function
Contributors: H. O. Pörtner, M. Lucassen, and D. Storch
Chapter 4. Antifreeze Proteins and Organismal Freezing Avoidance in Polar Fishes
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and C.-H. Christina Cheng
Chapter 5. Respiratory Systems and Metabolic Rates
Contributors: John F. Steffensen
Chapter 6. The Circulatory System and its Control
Contributors: M. Axelsson
Chapter 7. Blood Gas Transport and Haemoglobin Function in Polar Fishes: Does Lower
Temperature Explain Physiological Characters?
Contributors: RMG Wells
Chapter 8. Antarctic Fish Skeletal Muscle and Locomotion
Contributors: William Davison
Chapter 9. The Nervous System
Contributors: John McDonald and John Montgomery
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 22
- Published: October 12, 2005
- No. of pages (Hardback): 408
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123504463
- eBook ISBN: 9780080918747
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John F. Steffensen
Affiliations and expertise
University of CopenhagenAF
Anthony Farrell
Dr. Tony Farrell is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Zoology & Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research had provided an understanding of fish cardiorespiratory systems and has applied this knowledge to salmon migratory passage, fish stress handling and their recovery, sustainable aquaculture and aquatic toxicology. He has over 490 research publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and an h-factor of 92. He has co-edited of 30 volumes of the Fish Physiology series, as well as an award-winning Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology. As part of his application of physiology to aquaculture, he has studied the sub-lethal impacts of sea lice and piscine orthoreovirus on the physiology of juvenile salmon. Dr. Farrell has received multiple awards, including the Fry Medal, which is the highest honour to a scientist from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, the Beverton Medal, which is the highest honour to a scientist from the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, the Award of Excellence, which is the highest honour of the American Fisheries Society and the Murray A. Newman Awards both for Research and for Conservation from the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre. He is a former President of the Society of Experimental Biologists and a former Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Fish Biology. He served as a member of the Minister’s Aquaculture Advisory Committee on Finfish Aquaculture for British Columbia and was a member of the Federal Independent Expert Panel on Aquaculture Science.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaRead Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Polar Fishes on ScienceDirect