Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda: Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0128042230 ISBN 13 : 9780128042236

Editeur : Academic Press Inc, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

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.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0128042230
• ISBN 13: 9780128042236
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 836
• Éditeur: Hamada Neusa, Thorp James H., Rogers D. Christopher
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italie