Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates

Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich) will welcome the comprehensive revision and expansion of that trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook from a single North American tome into a developing multi-volume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world. The series entitled Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp) begins with the current Volume I: Ecology and General Biology (edited by J.H. Thorp and D.C. Rogers), which is designed as a companion volume for the remaining books in the series. Those following volumes provide taxonomic coverage for specific zoogeographic regions of the world, starting with Keys to Nearctic Fauna (Vol. II) and Keys to Palaearctic Fauna (Vol. III). Volume I maintains the ecological and general biological focus of the previous editions but now expands coverage globally in all chapters, includes more taxonomic groups (e.g., chapters on individual insect orders), and covers additional functional topics such as invasive species, economic impacts, and functional ecology. As in previous editions, the 4th edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates is designed for use by professionals in universities, government agencies, and private companies as well as by undergraduate and graduate students.

• Global coverage of aquatic invertebrate ecology
• Discussions on invertebrate ecology, phylogeny, and general biology written by international experts for each group
• Separate chapters on invasive species and economic impacts and uses of invertebrates
• Eight additional chapters on insect orders and a chapter on freshwater millipedes
• Four new chapters on collecting and culturing techniques, ecology of invasive species, economic impacts, and ecological function of invertebrates
• Overall expansion of ecology and general biology and a shift of the even more detailed taxonomic keys to other volumes in the projected 9-volume series
• Identification keys to lower taxonomic levels

professional scientists, technicians in academia, private companies, government agencies, and NGOs

1. Introduction to Invertebrates of Inland Waters
   2. Overview of Inland Water Habitats
   3. Collection and Culturing Techniques
   4. Functional Relationships of Freshwater Invertebrates
   5. Ecology of Invasive Alien Invertebrates
   6. Economic Aspects of Freshwater Invertebrates
   7. Free-Living Protozoa
   8. Phylum Porifera
   9. Phylum Cnidaria
   10. Phylum Platyhelminthes
   11. Phylum Nemertea
   12. Phylum Gastrotricha
   13. Phylum Rotifera
   14. Phylum Nematoda
   15. Phylum Nematomorpha
   16. Phyla Ectoprocta and Entoprocta (Bryozoans)
   17. Phylum Tardigrada
   18. Introduction to Mollusca and the Class Gastropoda
   19. Class Bivalvia
   20. Introduction to Annelida and the Class Polychaeta
   21. Class Clitellata: Oligochaeta
   22. Class Clitellata: Branchiobdellida
   23. Class Clitellata: Hirudinida and Acanthobdellida
   24. Introduction to the Phylum Arthropoda
   25. Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida
   26. Subphylum Myriapoda, Class Diplopoda
   27. Introduction to “Crustacea”
   28. Class Branchiopoda
   29. Class Maxillopoda
   30. Class Ostracoda
   31. Class Malacostraca, Superorders Peracarida and Syncarida
   32. Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda
   33. Hexapoda – Introduction to Insects and Collembola
   34. Order Ephemeroptera
   35. Order Odonata
   36. Order Plecoptera
   37. Order Hemiptera
   38. Order Trichoptera
   39. Order Coleoptera
   40. Order Diptera
   41. Minor Insect Orders