Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Volume 3: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda
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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
- 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
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
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
- No. of pages: 836
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: August 30, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128042649
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128042236
About the Editors
Neusa Hamada
Is a research scientist in Brazil with almost 30 years of experience. Neusa has been at Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia (CPEN) since 1989. In the past 10 years 90 journal articles, 3 books local to the Brazilian market have published and Neusa has contributed an additional 21 chapters to a variety of titles.
Affiliations and Expertise
Research Professor, Institutio Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
James Thorp
Dr James Thorp was senior editor (with Alan Covich) for the prior editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, which has developed into a multi-volume, global work for this edition. He also published in 2008 The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis (Thorp, Thoms, and Delong) and Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America in 2011 (Thorp and Rogers). He has contributed and authored approximately 100 chapters, books, and publications in journals (e.g., BioScience, Ecology, Freshwater Biology, Freshwater Science, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Oecologia, Oikos, River Research and Applications, and River Systems). He is on the Editorial Boards for River Research and Applications and River Systems; former Assoc. Editor of Freshwater Invertebrate Biology (now Freshwater Science) and has reviewed multiple journal articles and books along with grant proposals for NSF, DOE, EPA, etc.; NSF and EPA panel member. He has been assisting the EPA as an Expert intermittently since 2008, is a former Assoc Director for the Center for Environmental Management at Clarkson and a Past President for the International Society for River Science. This book will be the fifth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.
Affiliations and Expertise
Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, KS, USA
D. Christopher Rogers
Dr. D. Christopher Rogers is a research zoologist at the University of Kansas with the Kansas Biological Survey and is affiliated with the Biodiversity Institute, with numerous research projects all over the world. He received his PhD degree from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. Christopher specializes in freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans (particularly Branchiopoda and Malacostraca) and the invertebrate fauna of seasonally astatic wetlands on a global scale. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in crustacean
taxonomy and invertebrate ecology, as well as published popular and scientific field guides and identification manuals to freshwater invertebrates. Christopher is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crustacean Biology and a founding member of the Southwest Association of Freshwater Invertebrate Taxonomists. He has been involved in aquatic invertebrate conservation efforts all over the world.
Affiliations and Expertise
Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Diogo V. Mon Aug 02 2021
Opinion on the Odonata section
This is the ultimate key for Neotropical Odonata larvae. The Odonata section is very well illustrated (some taxa were never photographed before), the keys are coherent and the morphological structures of the taxa are explored in detail.