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In August of 1980, close to the whistlestop of Maltby, definitely, we'd plead, the U. S. A. , a prosperous Washington, Don Stewart and that i met in my rented nation,can fund our idea if merely as a gesture of condo trailer to comic strip an offer to the nationwide aid to international scientists. by some means, notwithstanding, technological know-how origin. Our aim was once easy: to re­ we appeared to omit closing dates, fall in-between the search from the root air fare and consistent with diem for cracks, and leave out the suitable connections. It was once no longer nearly 20 Latin American scientists to at­ until eventually may possibly, 1982, a number of weeks earlier than the proposed have a tendency a workshop entitled the 'Systematics and workshop, that we discovered shall we no longer locate any Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater money for bringing Latin American scientists to the Fishes' that will persist with the 1982 ASIH (Ameri­ U. S. The courses for the assembly have been can Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) published, the meal coupons, ceremonial dinner tickets, and all assembly. We had offered an preliminary define for our the opposite facilities that include a qualified idea to a host ofcolleagues in . June of 1980 assembly have been prepared, yet we had no Latin American on the ASIH assembly at Texas Christian college ichthyologists as members. a few abstracts have been in citadel worthy, Texas. The guidance committee for being obtained via this system organizers, however the workshop, together with a dozen senior scien­ with out U. S.

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0 01 \ '":f \ Ge n er a l ~x (]) Z / \ / . • Reg i on . . . • Re gion 2 . . . • . -01 2 -1- 3450 . --,--,-12345 S t r e a m w id th (rn ) 32 32 0 a 2 3 4 5 6 S t r ea m w idt h (rn ) Fig. 7. Species rich ness patterns offish feeding guilds illustrating effects of region and stream size. 'Species numb ers were computed over all samples. G uild assignments are given in Table 6. Fig. 8. Effects of strea m size on biomass densities of fish feeding guilds. N umbers beside mean s in the bot tom gra ph indicate the numb er of hab itat units sampled in each stream.

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