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Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates

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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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty and staff at universiities and consulting companies interested in freshwater biology and ecology, limnology, envionmental science, invertebrate zoology and related fields

Review quotes

From the Reviews of the first edition:
"This is a book by biologists for biologists, constructed with care, professionalism and detail. I found no chapter to be disappointing, and those covering the groups I know best were fair and helpful syntheses. This book will be immediately helpful to me and my graduate and senior undergraduate students; it will be a valuable reference in several of our biology courses such as limnology, ecology and invertebrate biology."—QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

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About the editors

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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

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Alan P. Covich

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

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