Fish Physiology: Euryhaline Fishes

Dr. Colin Brauner was educated in Canada at the University of British Columbia (Ph D), followed by a Post-doctoral fellowship at Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark, and was a Research Associate at McMaster University. He is a Professor of Zoology, UBC and Director of the UBC Aquatics Facility. He has been a Co-Editor of the Fish Physiology series since 2006. His research investigates environmental adaptations (both mechanistic and evolutionary) in relation to gas-exchange, acid-base balance and ion regulation in fish, integrating responses from the molecular, cellular and organismal level. The ultimate goal is to understand how evolutionary pressures have shaped physiological systems among vertebrates and to determine the degree to which physiological systems can adapt/acclimate to natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. This information is crucial for basic biology and understanding the diversity of biological systems, but much of his research conducted to date can also be applied to issues of aquaculture, toxicology and water quality criteria development, as well as fisheries management. His achievements have been recognized by the Society for Experimental Biology, UK (President’s medal) and the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research (J.C. Stevenson Memorial Lecturer) and the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre (Murray A. Newman Award for Aquatic Research). He is a former President of the Canadian Society of Zoologists.

"...I found the book very worthwhile reading and have learned a great deal from it." --The Quarterly Review of Biology"...especially useful to research scientists interested in ion and water homeostasis and veterinarians involved with aquaculture or fisheries who are interested in wild and cultured euryhaline fishes." --Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, December 15, 2014

• 1. Principles and patterns of osmoregulation and euryhalinity in fish Sue Edwards 2. Osmosensing and autoregulation of euryhalinity Dietmar Kueltz 3. Hormonal Control of euryhalinity Yosio Takei and Stephen D. McCormick 4. Euryhaline Elasmobranchs James S. Ballantyne and David I. Fraser 5. Smolt Physiology: the freshwater-seawater transitions in salmonids Stephen D. McCormick 6. Freshwater-Seawater transitions in migratory fish Joseph Zydlewski 7. Seawater-Freshwater transitions in migratory fish J. Mark Shrimpton 8. Euryhalinity: Intertidal fish William Marshall 9. Euryhalinity: extreme environments Colin Brauner and Jonathan Wilson 10. Evolution of euryhalinity Eric Schultz and Stephen D. McCormick