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
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Description
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
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
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
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
Product details
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: August 30, 2018
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Neusa Hamada
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James H. Thorp
Dr. James H. Thorp is a 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 10 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.
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