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Zusatztext This book ... is thorough, dense, informative, and very, very useful. ... [I]t will be a priceless reference, not only for crustacean specialists but also for anyone interested in the adaptations of higher invertebrates. Essential. Informationen zum Autor Les Watling is Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii.Martin Thiel is Professor of Marine Biology at the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile. Klappentext The second volume of The Natural History of the Crustacea Series, covering how crustaceans live in a wide range of environments, with emphasis on how they exploit food sources. Zusammenfassung This second volume in the Natural History of the Crustacea series examines how crustaceans-the different body shapes and adaptations of which are described in volume 1-make a living in the wide range of environments they inhabit, and how they exploit food sources. The contributions in the volume give synthetic overviews of particular lifestyles and feeding mechanisms, and offer a fresh look at crustacean life styles through the technological tools that have been applied to recent crustacean research. These include SEM (scanning electron microscope) techniques, micro-optics, and long-term video recordings that have been used for a variety of behavioral studies. The audience will include not only crustacean biologists but evolutionary ecologists who want to understand the diversification of particular life styles, ecologists who follow the succession of communities, biogeochemists who estimate the role of crustaceans in geochemical fluxes, and biologists with a general interest in crustaceans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Role of Natural History in Understanding the Diversity of Lifestyles in Crustaceans Les Watling and Martin Thiel Chapter 2. Diversity of Lifestyles, Sexual Systems and Larval Development Pattern in Sessile Crustaceans Benny K.K. Chan and Jens T. Høeg Chapter 3. The Tube-dwelling Lifestyle in Crustaceans and its Relation to Feeding P. Geoffrey Moore and Lucas B. Eastman Chapter 4. Burrow-dwelling in Crustacea R. James A. Atkinson and Lucas B. Eastman Chapter 5. Crustaceans Inhabiting Domiciles Excavated from Macrophytes and Stone Barbara A. Mejaes, Alistair G.B. Poore and Martin Thiel Chapter 6. Crustaceans in Mobile Homes Patsy A. McLaughlin Chapter 7. Crustaceans as Symbionts: An Overview of their Diversity, Host Use and Lifestyles J. Antonio Baeza Chapter 8. Predator Adaptations of Decapods Kari L. Lavalli and Ehud Spanier Chapter 9. Small Free-living Crustaceans Richard B. Taylor Chapter 10. Planktonic Crustaceans: Lifestyles in the Water Column Rubén Escribano and Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño Chapter 11. Oxygen Lifestyles of the Species-rich and Fabulous: the Deep-sea Crustaceans George D.F. Wilson and Shane T. Ahyong Chapter 12. Lifestyles of Terrestrial Crustaceans Alastair Richardson and Paula Araujo Chapter 13. Freshwater Crustaceans: Adaptations to Complex Inland Habitats and Species Interactions Alan P. Covich Chapter 14. Crustaceans of Extreme Environments Chiara Benvenuto, Brenton Knott, and Stephen C. Weeks Chapter 15. Filter-feeding Mechanisms in Crustaceans Hans Ulrik Riisgård Chapter 16. Deposit-Feeding: Obtaining Nutrition from Sediment Les Watling Chapter 17. Lifestyle of Detritus-Feeding Crustaceans Sven Hammann and Martin Zimmer Chapter 18. Grazers of Macroalgae and Higher Plants Veijo Jormalainen Chapter 19. Foraging Behavior of Crustacean Predators and Scavengers Lucas B. Eastman and Martin Thiel ...
