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...

This book summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions. Furthermore, a link is made to conservation biology, and how human activities have exacerbated existing extreme environments and created new ones.