Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates

Thorp, James H., (editor.). Covich, Alan P., (editor.).

Summary: The First Edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates has been immensely popular with students and researchers interested in freshwater biology and ecology, limnology, environmental science, invertebrate zoology, and related fields. The First Edition has been widely used as a textbook and this Second Edition should continue to serve students in advanced classes. The Second Edition features expanded and updated chapters, especially with respect to the cited references and the classification of North American freshwater invertebrates. New chapters or substantially revised chapters include those on freshwater ecosystems, snails, aquatic spiders, aquatic insects, and crustaceans. * Most up-to-date and informative text of its kind * Written by experts in the ecology of various invertebrate groups, coverage emphasizes ecological information within a current taxonomic framework * Each chapter contains both morphological and taxonomic information, including keys to North American taxa (usually to the generic level) as well as bibliographic information and a list of further readings * The text is geared toward researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Record details

ISBN: 0080530672
ISBN: 9780080530673
ISBN: 0126906475
ISBN: 9780126906479
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 1056 pages) : illustrations
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, ©2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Previous edition: ©1991.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction to freshwater invertebrates / James H. Thorp and Alan P. Covich -- An overview of freshwater habitats / James H. Thorp and Alan P. Covich -- Protozoa / William D. Taylor and Robert W. Sanders -- Porifera / Thomas M. Frost, Henry M. Reiswig, and Anthony Ricciardi -- Cnidaria / Lawrence B. Slobodkin and Patricia E. Bossert -- Flatworms : Turbellaria and Nemertea / Jurek Kolasa -- Gastrotricha / David Strayer and William D. Hummon -- Phylum Rotifera / Robert Lee Wallace and Terry W. Snell -- Nematoda and Nematomorpha / George O. Poinar -- Mollusca : Gastropoda / Kenneth M. Brown --Mollusca : Bivalvia / Robert F. McMahon and Arthur E. Bogan -- Annelida : Oligochaeta, including Branchiobdellidae / Ralph O. Brinkhurst and Stuart R. Gelder -- Annelida : Euhirudinea and Acanthobdellidae / Ronald W. Davies and Fredric R. Govedich -- Bryozoans / Timothy S. Wood -- Tardigrada / Diane R. Nelson -- Water mites (Hydrachnida) and other arachnids / Ian M. Smith, Bruce P. Smith, and David R. Cook -- Diversity and classification of insects and Collembola / William L. Hilsenhoff -- Aquatic insect ecology / Anne E. Hershey and Gary A. Lamberti -- Introduction to the subphylum Crustacea / Alan P. Covich and James H. Thorp -- Ostracoda / L. Denis Delorme -- Cladocera and other Branchiopoda / Stanley I. Dodson and David G. Frey -- Copepoda / Craig E. Williamson and Janet W. Reid -- Decapoda / H.H. Hobbs III.
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