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Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates

Volume 3: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda

  • 4th Edition - August 30, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Neusa Hamada, James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers
  • Language: English

Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda, Volume Three, provides a guide for identifying and evaluating a key subphylum, hexapoda,… Read more

Description

Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda, Volume Three, provides a guide for identifying and evaluating a key subphylum, hexapoda, for Central America, South America and the Antarctic. This book is essential for anyone working in water quality management, conservation, ecology or related fields in this region, and is developed to be the most modern and consistent set of taxonomic keys available. It is part of a series that is designed to provide a highly comprehensive, current set of keys for a given bioregion, with all keys written in a consistent style.

This series can be used for a full spectrum of interested readers, from students, to university professors and government agencies.

Key features

  • Includes zoogeographic coverage of the entire Neotropics, from central México and the Caribbean Islands, to the tip of South America
  • Identifies aquatic springtails (Collembola) and insects to the genus level for many groups, and family or subfamily level for less well known taxa
  • Presents multiple keys, from higher to lower taxonomic levels that are appropriate for each users’ level of scientific knowledge and needs
  • Provides a general introduction and sections on limitations, terminology and morphology, material preparation and preservation, and references

Readership

Professional scientists and technicians in ecology, environmental science, freshwater biology, limnology, invertebrate zoology and related fields, private companies, government agencies, and NGOs

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Collembola

3. Ephemeroptera

4. Plecoptera

5. Orthoptera

6. Blattodea

7. Hemiptera

8. Megaloptera

9. Neuroptera

10. Trichoptera

11. Lepidoptera

12. Hymenoptera

13. Mecoptera

14. Odanata Introduction

15. Coleoptera Introduction

16. Diptera Introduction

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 30, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

NH

Neusa Hamada

Is a research scientist in Brazil with almost 30 years of experience. Neusa has been at Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia (CPEN) since 1989. In the past 10 years 90 journal articles, 3 books local to the Brazilian market have published and Neusa has contributed an additional 21 chapters to a variety of titles.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Institutio Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

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

DR

D. Christopher Rogers

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

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