Skip to main content
Elsevier

Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates

Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, written by experts in the ecology of various freshwater invertebrate groups, is the most up-to-date and in… Read more

Purchase options

Sorry, this title is not available for purchase in your country/region.

Description

Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, written by experts in the ecology of various freshwater invertebrate groups, is the most up-to-date and informative text of its kind. The coverage includes all freshwater invertebrate phyla with an emphasis on ecological information. Each chapter contains ecological and morphological information and a key to genera (or family for insects) as well as a bibliography and list of further readings. A glossary and subject index are included at the end of the book. The text is written at a median level of difficulty and geared toward researchers and upper-undergraduate and graduate students.

Key features

@introbul:Highlights of the text:
@bul:* Taxonomic keys for all groups
* Generously illustrated
* Includes taxa distributed in Canada
* Taxonomic index

Readership

Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers in limnology, hydrobiology, benthic biology, and ecology (invertebrates and fish).

Table of contents

[Contents without contributors--9/25/91 LMC]**Introduction to Freshwater Invertebrates. An Overview of Freshwater Habitats. Protozoa. Porifera. The Freshwater Cnidaria--or Coelenterates. Flatworms: Turbellaria and Nemertea. Gastrotricha. Rotifera. Nematoda and Nematomorpha. Mollusca: Gastropoda. Mollusca: Bivalvia. Annelida: Oligochaeta and Branchiobdellida. Annelida: Leeches, Polychaetes, and Acanthobdellids. Bryozoans. Tardigrada. Water Mites. Diversity and Classification of Insects and Colembola. Crustacea: Introduction and Peracarida. Ostracoda. Cladocera and Other Branchiopoda. Copepoda. Decapoda. Glossary. Taxonomic Index. Subject Index.

Product details

About the editors

JT

James H. Thorp

Dr. James H. Thorp is an emeritus 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 120 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA

AC

Alan P. Covich

Affiliations and expertise
Colorado State University, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Fort Collins, U.S.A.