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Third Edition
Edited By
James Thorp, University of Kansas - Lawrence, USA
Alan Covich, Colorado State University, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Fort Collins, U.S.A.
Audience
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers and lecturers in freshwater biology and ecology, limnology, environmental science, invertebrate zoology and related fields.
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION TO INVERTEBRATES OF INLAND WATERS
James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, and Walter W. Dimmick
I. Introduction
II. Species and
Phylogenies
III. Taxonomy and Classification
IV. Synopses of the Invertebrates of North American Inland Waters
V. Taxonomic Key to Major
Invertebrate Fauna of Inland Waters
VI. Selected References
2 AN OVERVIEW OF INLAND WATER HABITATS
James H. Thorp and Alan P. Covich
I. Introduction
II. Lotic Environments – The Riverine Ecosystem
III. Subterranean Habitats
IV. Lentic Ecosystems
V. Selected References
3 PROTOZOA
William D. Taylor and Robert W. Sanders
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy and Physiology
III. Ecology and Evolution
IV. Collecting,
Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
V. Key
VI. Selected References
4 PORIFERA
Henry M. Reiswig, Thomas M. Frost , and Anthony
Ricciardi
I. Introduction
II. Morphology and Physiology
III. Ecology and Behavior
IV. Evolution and Phylogenetics
V. Collecting, Rearing,
and Preparation for Identification
VI. Identification of Freshwater Sponges
VII. Selected References
5 CNIDARIA
Lawrence B. Slobodkin
and Patricia E. Bossert
I. Introduction
II. General Biology of Cnidaria
III. Ecology of Freshwater Cnidaria
IV. Collection and Maintenance
of Freshwater Cnidaria
V. Classification of Freshwater Cnidaria
VI. Selected Readings
6 FLATWORMS: TURBELLARIANS AND NEMERTEA
Jurek
Kolasa and Seth Tyler
I. Introduction to Turbellaria and Nemertea
II. Turbellaria: Introduction and Status in the Animal Kingdom
III.
Anatomy and Physiology of Turbellarians
IV. Ecology of Turbellarians
V. Collecting, Rearing, and Identification Techniques for Turbellarians
VI. Identification of North American Genera of Turbellarians
VII. Nemertea: General Characteristics and External and Internal Anatomical
Features
VIII. Ecology of Nemertea
IX. Collection, Culturing, and Preservation
X. Taxonomic Key to Species of Freshwater Nemerteans
XI.
Selected References
7 GASTROTRICHA
David L. Strayer, William D. Hummon, and Rick Hochberg
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy and Physiology
III. Ecology and Evolution
IV. Collecting, Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
V. Taxonomic Key to Gastrotricha
VI. Selected
References
8 ROTIFERA
Robert Lee Wallace and Terry W. Snell
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy and Physiology
III. Ecology and Evolution
IV.
Collecting, Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
V. Classification and Systematics
VI. Selected References
9 NEMATODA AND NEMATOMORPHA
George O. Poinar, Jr.
I. Nematoda
II. Nematomorpha
III. Selected References
10 MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA
Kenneth M. Brown and Charles Lydeard
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy and Physiology
III. Ecology and Conservation
IV. Evolution and Phylogenetics
V. Collecting and Culturing
Freshwater Gastropods
VI. Key to Freshwater Gastropods of North America
VII. Selected References
11 MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA
Kevin S. Cummings
and Daniel L. Graf
I. Introduction
II. Morphology and Physiology
III. Ecology
IV. Evolution and Phylogenetics
V. Collecting, Curation,
and Rearing
VI. Identification of North American Freshwater Bivalves
VII. Selected References
12 ANNELIDA (CLITELLATA): OLIGOCHAETA,
BRANCHIOBDELLIDA,
HIRUDINIDA, AND ACANTHOBDELLIDA
Fredric R. Govedich, Bonnie A. Bain, William E. Moser,
Stuart R. Gelder, Ronald W.
Davies, and Ralph O. Brinkhurst
I. Introduction to Oligochaeta, Branchiobdellida, Hirudinea, and Acanthobdellida
II. Oligochaeta
III.
Branchiobdellida
IV. Hirudinida and Acanthobdellidae
V. Selected References
13 BRYOZOANS
Timothy S. Wood
I. Introduction
II. Morphology
and Physiology
III. Ecology and Behavior
IV. Evolution and Phylogenetics
V. Entoprocta
VI. Study Methods
VII. Taxonomic Key to North
American Freshwater Bryozoans
VII. Selected References
14 TARDIGRADA
Diane R. Nelson, Roberto Guidetti, and Lorena Rebecchi
I. Introduction
II. Evolution
III. Major Morphological Taxonomic Characters
IV. Anatomy
V. Latent States
VI. Reproduction and Development
VII. Ecology
VIII. Techniques
IX. Identification
X. Taxonomic Key to Genera of Freshwater and Terrestrial Tardigrada
XI. Selected References
15 WATER
MITES (HYDRACHNIDIAE) AND OTHER ARACHNIDS
Ian M. Smith, David R. Cook, and Bruce P. Smith
I. Introduction to Arachnids
II. Water Mites
(Hydrachnidiae)
III. Other Arachnids in Freshwater Habitats
IV. Selected References
16 DIVERSITY AND CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS AND COLLEMBOLA
R. Edward DeWalt, Vincent H. Resh, and William L. Hilsenhoff
I. Introduction
II. Aquatic Orders of Insects
III. Partially Aquatic Orders
of Insects - Major Groups)
IV. Semi-aquatic Collembola (Springtails)
V. Identification of Freshwater Insects and Collembola
VI. Selected
References
17 AQUATIC INSECT ECOLOGY
Anne E. Hershey, Gary A. Lamberti, Dominic T. Chaloner, and Robert M. Northington
I. Introduction
II. Aquatic Insect Communities
III. Aquatic Insect Life Histories
IV. Insect-Mediated Processes
V. Role of Disturbance and Human Impacts
on Aquatic Insect Communities
VI. Aquatic Insects in Biomonitoring Studies
VII. Selected References
18 INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBPHYLUM
CRUSTACEA
Alan P. Covich, James H. Thorp, and D. Christopher Rogers
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy and Physiology of Crustacea
III. Ecology
and Evolution of Selected Crustacea
IV. Collecting, Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
V. Classification of Crustacean Classes,
Peracarida, and Brachiura
VI. Acknowledgments
VII. Selected References
19 OSTRACODA
Alison J. Smith and L. Denis Delorme
I. Introduction
II. Morphology and Physiology
III. Ecology and Behavior
IV. Evolution and Phylogenetics
V. Collecting, Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
VI. Identification of North American Non-Marine Ostracodes
VII. Selected References
20 CLADOCERA AND OTHER BRANCHIOPODA
Stanley I. Dodson,
Carla E. C ceres, and D. Christopher Rogers
I. Introduction and Key to Major Groups of Branchiopoda
II. Cladoceran Anatomy and Physiology
III. Cladoceran Distribution
IV. Cladoceran Behavior
V. What Cladocerans Eat and What Eats Cladocerans
VI. Population Regulation of Cladocera
VII. Functional Role of Cladocera in the Ecosystem
VIII. Cladocera: Paleolimnology and the Fossil Record
IX. Cladoceran Toxicology
X.
Collecting and Rearing Cladocera
XI. Taxonomic Keys for North American Cladocerans
XII. Anatomy and Physiology of Large (Non-Cladoceran)
Branchiopods
XIII. Ecology of Large Branchiopods
XIV. Collecting and Rearing Techniques
XV. Taxonomic Keys for Large Branchiopod Genera
XVI. Selected Readings
21 COPEPODA
Janet W. Reid and Craig E. Williamson
I. Introduction
II. Morphology and Physiology
III. Ecology
and Evolution
IV. Collecting, Rearing, and Preparation for Identification
V. Identification of Copepods
VI. Selected References
22 DECAPODA
David Lodge and Horton Hobbs
I. Introduction
II. Morphology and Physiology
III. Eecology and Behavior
IV. Evolution, Phylogenetics and
Biogeography
V. Conservation Status and Anthropogenic Impacts
VI. Collecting, Rearing, and Preservation
VII. Identification of Selected
Shrimps, Crayfishes, and Crabs
VIII. Literature Cited
IX. Selected References
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