Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-12-381426-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

The Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America focuses on freshwater invertebrates that can be identified using at most an inexpensive magnifying glass. This Guide will be useful for experienced nature enthusiasts, students doing aquatic field projects, and anglers looking for the best fish bait, lure, or fly. Color photographs and art, as well as the broad geographic coverage, set this guide apart.

Zielgruppe

<p>College students, for use as supplement or lab manual in aquatic biology courses, aquatic ecologists working in the field, amateur naturalists, fly fishermen or other anglers.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorp, James H

Rogers, D Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Einzeller (Protozoen)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierpathologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Using This Book Effectively2. General Techniques for Collecting and Identification3. The Nature of Inland Water Habitats4. A Primer on Ecological Relationships Among Freshwater Invertebrates5. Sponges: Phylum Porifera6. Hydra and Jellyfish: Phylum Cnidari7. Flatworms: Phylum Platyhelminthes, Class Turbellaria8. Hairworms: Phylum Nematomorpha9. Snails: Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda10. Mussels and Clams: Phylum Mollusca, Class Bivalvia 11. Aquatic Segmented Worms and Leeches: Phylum Annelida12. Moss Animals: Phylum Ectoprocta, or Bryozoa13. Introduction to Freshwater Invertebrates in the Phylum Arthropoda14. Mites and Spiders: Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida15. Fairy Shrimp, Tadpole Shrimp, Clam Shrimp, and Water Fleas: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Branchiopoda 16. Copepods, Fish Lice, and Seed Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Classes Maxillopoda and Ostracoda 17. Aquatic Sow Bugs, Scuds, and Opossum Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Superorder Peracarida 18. Crayfish, Crabs, and Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda 19. Introduction to Insects and Their Near Relatives: Subphylum Hexapoda20. Mayflies: Insect Order Ephemeroptera21. Dragonflies and Damselflies: Insect Order Odonata22. Stoneflies: Insect Order Plecoptera23. True Bugs: Insect Order Hemiptera24. Hellgrammites, Spongillaflies, Caterpillars, and Others: Minor Aquatic Insect Orders 25. Caddisflies: Insect Order Trichoptera26. Beetles: Insect Order Coleoptera27. Midges, Mosquitoes, Blackflies, and Other True Flies: Insect Order Diptera

Über Autor(innen)

Thorp, James H
Dr. James H. Thorp is a professor and senior scientist at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS, United States). Prior to 2001, he was a distinguished professor and dean at Clarkson University, department chair and professor at the University of Louisville, associate professor and director of the Calder Ecology Center at Fordham University, and research ecologist at Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He received his Baccalaureate from the University of Kansas and Masters and PhD degrees from North Carolina State. Prof. Thorp has been on the editorial board of three freshwater journals and is a former president of the International Society for River Science. His research interests run the gamut from organismal biology to community, ecosystem, and macrosystem ecology. While his research emphasizes aquatic invertebrates, he also studies fish ecology, especially food webs related. He has published more than 150 research articles and 10 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates.

Rogers, D Christopher
Dr. D. Christopher Rogers is a research zoologist at the University of Kansas with the Kansas Biological Survey and is affiliated with the Biodiversity Institute, with numerous research projects all over the world. He received his PhD degree from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. Christopher specializes in freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans (particularly Branchiopoda and Malacostraca) and the invertebrate fauna of seasonally astatic wetlands on a global scale. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in crustacean
taxonomy and invertebrate ecology, as well as published popular and scientific field guides and identification manuals to freshwater invertebrates. Christopher is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crustacean Biology and a founding member of the Southwest Association of Freshwater Invertebrate Taxonomists. He has been involved in aquatic invertebrate conservation efforts all over the world.