Author: F. A. BatherPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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A Record Of, and Index to the Literature of Echinoderma ...
Author: F. A. BatherBibliographic and Faunal Index of Paleozoic Pelmatozoan Echinoderms
Author: Ray Smith BasslerPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813720451
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Echinoderm Paleobiology
Author: William I. AusichPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351286
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms and is organized into five parts: echinoderm paleoecology, functional morphology, and paleoecology; evolutionary paleoecology; morphology for refined phylogenetic studies; innovative applications of data encoded in echinoderms; and information on new crinoid data sets.
Australian Echinoderms
Author: Timothy O'HaraPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486307639
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Echinoderms, including feather stars, seastars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea urchins and sea cucumbers form the basis of important fisheries. Over 1000 species live in Australian waters, from the shoreline to the depths of the abyssal plain and the tropics to Antarctic waters. Australian Echinoderms is an authoritative account of Australia’s 110 families of echinoderms. It brings together in a single volume comprehensive information on the identification, biology, evolution, ecology and management of these animals for the first time. Richly illustrated with beautiful photographs and written in an accessible style, Australian Echinoderms suits the needs of marine enthusiasts, academics and fisheries managers both in Australia and other geographical areas where echinoderms are studied.
Echinoderm Aquaculture
Author: Nicholas BrownPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470960388
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are highly sought after delicacies growing in popularity globally. The demand for these species is rapidly outpacing natural stocks, and researchers and seafood industry personnel are now looking towards aquaculture as a means of providing a sustainable supply of these organism. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference on the basic biology and current culture practices for a wide range of geographically diverse echinoderm species. Echinoderm Aquaculture begins by examining the basic ecology and biology of sea urchins and sea cucumbers as well as the breadth of uses of these organisms as a source of food and bioactive compound. Subsequent chapters delineate the specific species of interest invarious geographic regions from around the world. Together, chapters provide a comprehensive coverage of culture practices. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference for researchers and industry personnel, and will serve as an invaluable resource to this rapidly growing segment of the aquaculture industry.
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History: 59.2-59.57,5
Author: American Museum of Natural History. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The Record of Zoological Literature
Author: Echinoderms
Author: Eric WhitmorePublisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781633211919
Category : Echinodermata
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Echinoderms play an important ecological role in marine communities, especially in relation to food chains, occupying diverse trophic levels such as herbivores, carnivores, detritivores and omnivores in the marine environment. These animals feed on many different kinds of food but the majority eat only small particles of edible matter suspended in the water or lying as detritus on the sea bottom. Although echinoderms occur at all depths from the intertidal to the abyssal zones and are present throughout all of the world's oceans, their distribution is limited by the composition and topography of the sea-bed, by temperature and pressure differences according to locality and depth, and by salinity and food supply. This book discusses echinoderms and their habitual environments as well as their reproductive biology and the ecology in which they form their habitats.
Physiology of Echinoderms
Author: John BinyonPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 148315727X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Physiology of Echinoderms is an 11-chapter book that begins by elucidating the feeding, digestion, and excretion of specific echinoderms. The critical role of amoebocytes in the excretion process involved in these organisms is also explained. This book also describes several aspects of importance to these organisms, including salinity tolerance, osmoregulation, ionic regulation, chemical composition, neural control of locomotion, biochemical affinities, toxins, and immunology. The organisms' physiology in sensory, water vascular system, respiratory system, spawning, neurosecretion, nerves, and muscles are also explained.
Catalogue of the British Echinoderms in the British Museum (Natural History
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Echinodermata
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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