Evolutionary ecology of neotropical freshwater fishes Proceedings of
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Developments in environmental biology of fishes 3 Series Editor EUGENE K . BALON
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 Edited by THOMAS M . ZARET
Reprinted from Environmental biology of fishes 9 (2), 1983 with addition of three more papers from the conference and synopses in Spanish and Portuguese
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number; 83-22238 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
International Symposium on Systematics. and Evolutionary Ecol ogy of Neotropical Fishes (1st : 1982 : DeKalb, ru.) Evolutionary ecology of neotropical fishes. (Devel opment s in environmental biology of fishes; 3) Synopses in Spanish and Por tuguese. ''Repri nt ed from Envi r onment al biology of fishes 9 (2) , 1983 ;li t h addition of t hree more papers from the conference. t1 Includes index. 1. Fishes--Latin Ameri ca --Evo1ution-- Congresses. 2 . Fishes - -Latin America--Ecology-- Congresses. I. Zaret, Thomas M. , 1945II. Title. III. Ser i e s . QL618 .2 . I 58
1982
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83-22238
ISBN 978-90-481-8524-5 ISBN 978-94-015-7682-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-7682-6
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© 1984 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1984 Softcover reprint of the hardcover Ist edition 1984 All rights reserved. No part of this pu blication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means , mechanical , photocopying, recording , or otherwise , without the pr ior written permission of the publish er , Springer-Science + Business Media, B.V.
Preface
In August of 1980, near the whistlestop of Maltby, Washington, Don Stewart and I met in my rented house trailer to sketch a proposal to the National Science Foundation. Our goal was simple: to request from the Foundation air fare and per diem for approximately 20 Latin American scientists to attend a workshop entitled the 'Systematics and Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes' that would follow the 1982 ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) meeting. We had presented an initial outline for our proposal to a number of colleagues in .J une of 1980 at the ASIH meeting at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The steering committee for the workshop, consisting of a dozen senior scientists in systematics and ecology of tropical freshwater fishes, met and encouraged us to proceed with submitting a proposal. In addition , the Field Museum in Chicago was making a contribution in order to facilitate this group of scientists. In short, we felt our objectives were correct, we had the backing of the scientific community, and our request was a modest one. We hoped the document would transit the Washington bureaucracy, be mailed to outside reviewers who would give i
