Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater InvertebratesThe coverage in this book includes all freshwater invertebrate phyla with an emphasis on ecological information. Each chapter contains ecological and morphological information and a key to genera (or family, for insects). The text has been aimed at researchers, upper-undergraduates and graduate students. The book also includes information on taxa distributed in Canada. |
Contents
Introduction to Freshwater | 1 |
Descriptive Ecology of Freshwater | 13 |
Bryozoans | 14 |
Protozoa | 37 |
Porifera | 95 |
Collecting Rearing and Identification | 152 |
General Characteristics External | 164 |
Nematoda | 249 |
Sampling | 277 |
Gastropoda | 287 |
Identification and Rearing | 370 |
Oligochaeta | 401 |
Introduction | 665 |
Current and Future Research | 706 |
Cladocera and Other | 723 |
Identification | 259 |
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