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Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin

  • 1st Edition - October 27, 2023
  • Editors: Alain Maasri, James H. Thorp
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 4 4 - 0
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 5 6 - 3

Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin, including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterra… Read more

Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin

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Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin, including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean islands, but excluding other biogeographic locations with Mediterranean climates located outside the region. The book provides an extensive description of the taxonomy and ecology of aquatic arthropods encountered in lentic and lotic habitats, as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats. It offers expanded taxonomic identification keys to major groups of arthropods with a description of their ecology and distribution. Keys for insects include aquatic larval stages and water-dwelling adults of Coleoptera and Heteroptera.

Additional sections focus on taxa that can be encountered in adjacent brackish and estuary ecosystems as long as the taxon primarily occurs in freshwaters. This is a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater arthropods with an introduction to recent molecular tools for identifications. It will be particularly useful for freshwater ecologists, limnologists, environmentalists and students in the ecological sciences.