Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates

Keys to Nearctic Fauna
4 ed
ISBN: 978-0-12-385028-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 762 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 2282 g

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Nearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook-from a single North American tome into a developing multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world.

Readers familiar with the first three editions will welcome this new volume. The series, now entitled Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, (edited by J.H. Thorp), began with Volume I: Ecology and General Biology, (edited by J.H. Thorp and D.C. Rogers).

It now continues in Volume II with taxonomic coverage of inland water invertebrates of the Nearctic zoogeographic region. As in previous editions, all volumes of the fourth edition are designed for multiple uses and levels of expertise by professionals in universities, government agencies, and private companies, as well as by undergraduate and graduate students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorp, James

Rogers, D. Christopher

Thorp, James H.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors to Volume II

About the Editors

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Preface to Volume II

Acknowledgments for Volume II

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Protozoa

Chapter 3: Phylum Porifera

Chapter 4: Phylum Cnidaria

Chapter 5: Phylum Platyhelminthes

Chapter 6: Phylum Nemertea

Chapter 7: Phylum Gastrotricha

Chapter 8: Phylum Rotifera

Chapter 9: Phylum Nemata

Chapter 10: Phylum Nematomorpha

Chapter 11: Phylum Mollusca

Chapter 12: Phylum Annelida

Chapter 13: Phylum Ectoprocta (Bryozoa)

Chapter 14: Phylum Entoprocta

Chapter 15: Phylum Tardigrada

Chapter 16: Phylum Arthropoda

Taxonomic Index

Über Autor(innen)

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. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. Christopher specializes in freshwater crustaceans (particularly the Branchiopoda and the Decapoda) and the invertebrate fauna of seasonally astatic wetlands on a global scale. He has numerous 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.

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.