Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin

The Mediterranean basin lies on the crossroad of three major continents and is considered home to extensive biodiversity and endemism. The basin includes contrasting topographic clines offering ever-changing landscapes of high mountains, coastal wetlands, karst formations, arid steppes, and sand dunes. Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin which includes parts of three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as the Mediterranean islands. It excludes other biogeographic locations with Mediterranean climate located outside the Mediterranean basin. The book provides an extensive description of the taxonomy and ecology of aquatic arthropods encountered in lentic and lotic habitats, as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats. The book offers expanded taxonomic identification keys to major groups of arthropods with a description of their ecology and distribution. Keys for insects include the aquatic larval stages and keys to water-dwelling adults of Coleoptera and Heteroptera. The book covers taxa that can be encountered in adjacent brackish and estuary ecosystems as long as the taxon primarily occurs in freshwaters. Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin provides a much-needed comprehensive resource on the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater arthropods with an introduction to recent molecular tools for identifications. It will be particularly useful for freshwater ecologists, limnologists, environmentalists, and students in the ecological sciences. Presents taxonomic keys to genera of aquatic insects and to family for other arthropods Provides a coverage of the entire Mediterranean basin, with case studies and examples Covers ecological and taxonomic organisms living in more traditionally-studied lakes and streams as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Ecology of Mediterranean Aquatic Systems3. Introduction to Arthropoda4. Introduction to Freshwater Mites of the Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida5. Introduction to the Subphylum Crustacea6. Class Branchiopoda7. Class Ostracoda8. Class Copepoda9. Class Thecostraca10. Class Malacostraca11. Class Hexapoda: General Introduction12. Order Ephemeroptera13. Order Plecoptera14. Order Odonata15. Order Heteroptera16. Order Coleoptera17. Order Trichoptera18. Order Diptera19. Other Insect Orders

• ISBN: 978-0-12-821844-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés