Author: Kjell Arne JohansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caddisflies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Analysis of the Family Helicopsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera)
Author: Kjell Arne JohansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caddisflies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Caddisflies
Author: Glenn B. WigginsPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442656174
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Caddisflies constitute the insect order Trichoptera in which some 10,000 species are known in the world, including about 1400 in North America. Fossil evidence shows that caddisflies originated in the Triassic period, 200-250 million years ago. They are important links in the movement of energy and nutrients through freshwater ecosystems due largely to the extraordinary diversification in their larval architecture, which includes portable and stationary shelters, silken filter nets, and osmotically semipermeable cocoons. Glenn Wiggins's Caddisflies is the foremost comprehensive reference source about these insects and is concerned with behavioural ecology, evolutionary history, biogeography, and biological diversity. Wiggins outlines fundamental concepts of aquatic ecology, illuminating the ways in which caddisflies help to make fresh waters work. Essential features of morphology, biology, and distribution are outlined for the twenty-six North American families of caddisflies and illustrated diagnostic keys are provided for larvae, pupae, and adults. The author also brings together information on caddisflies from widely scattered sources and provides comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature.
Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin
Author: Alain MaasriPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128218568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
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. - Presents taxonomic keys to genera and species to the majority of aquatic arthropod families - Provides coverage of all freshwater ecosystems of the Mediterranean basin, with case studies and examples - Includes numerous photographs of the aquatic arthropods described in the chapters - Covers the ecology and taxonomy of organisms living in more traditionally studied lakes and streams as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats
Entomologica Scandinavica
Author: Annals of the Carnegie Museum
Author: Insect Phylogeny
Author: Willi HennigPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Methodological introduction; Localities for palaeozoic and mesozoic insects; The phyloggenetic development of the insecta; Concluding remarks and prospects for the future.
Entomologica Scandinavica
Author: Carl Hildebrand LindrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Insect Systematics & Evolution
Author: Mémoires d'entomologie; publiés par la Société entomologique des Pays-Bas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Each vol. includes "Verslag" and "Lijst der leden der Nederlandse Entomologische Verenniging. (separately paged beginning with v. 15.)
Linnaeus Tercentenary
Author: Zhi-Qiang ZhangPublisher:
ISBN: 9781869771799
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description