Douglas Grant Smith

Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States

Porifera to Crustacea

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Need-to-know information on the classification and identification of aquatic invertebrates This Fourth Edition of the standard reference used by generations of professionals and students is the source for authoritative information on the natural history, ecology, and taxonomy of free-living American freshwater invertebrates. Completely revised and updated, this professional field guide features a wealth of new knowledge on invertebrate animal phyla covered in the previous edition as well as fully modified sections on the preparation of materials. Other important features of Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, Fourth Edition include: * Current taxonomical arrangements of all freshwater invertebrate animals, excluding insects * Improved graphical treatments and keys to identification, several provided by specialists * Photographs and color plates to aid identification * More than 300 line drawings, many new to this edition * Taxonomic keys carried uniformly to genus level in all but two phyla, with frequent references to species Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, Fourth Edition is an indispensable resource for biologists, ecologists, graduate students, and anyone who needs to acquire the thorough knowledge of aquatic invertebrates that is essential to understanding the community structure of freshwater environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• 4th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1388g
• ISBN-13: 9780471358374
• ISBN-10: 0471358371
• Artikelnr.: 21397945

Autorenporträt

DOUGLAS GRANT SMITH, MS, is a lecturer and curator of invertebrates in the Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Evolutionary and Organismic Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.

Magnitude of the Freshwater Environment.

The Chemical Divergence.

Origins of the Freshwater Fauna.

Freshwater Emigrants to the Sea.

Major Distinctions Between Marine and FreshwaterInvertebrates.

Evolutionary Shortcomings in Freshwaters.

Atypical Freshwater Habitats.

Dispersal and Barriers.

The Epidemic of Exotics.

Food Webs.

Collecting Ethics.

Comment Porifera.

Cnidaria.

Platyhelminthes.

Nemertea.

Gastrotricha.

Rotifera.

Nematoda.

Nematomorpha.

Tardigrada.

Entoprocta.

Ectoprocta.

Annelida.

Mollusca.

Arachnida.

Introduction to the Crustacea.

Phyllopodous Branchiopoda.

Cladoceran Branchiopoda.

Copepoda.

Branchiura.

Ostracoda.

Minor Malacostraca.

Isopoda.

Amphipoda.

Decapoda.

Appendix: Reagents, Solutions, and Laboratory Items.

Index.

Rezensionen

"I recommend this book to all freshwater ecologists" (FreshwaterForum, No.18 2002)

"The 4th Edition Continues to be an excellent treatise about theadaptation of invertebrates to freshwater environments." (Journalof the North American Benthological Society, June 2002)

"...The book is beautifully produced, will be a boon to NorthAmerican users, and a means of broadening the knowledge of studentseverywhere." (The Naturalist)

"Such a practical writing style makes the book easy to use and aperfect, one of its kind, laboratory manual." (Quarterly Reviewof Biology, September 2002)