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Zusatztext A series of this high quality gives specialists a place to focus and nonspecialists a good place to get trenchant summaries that are not available elsewhere. Informationen zum Autor Gary A. Wellborn is Professor of Biology and Director of The University of Oklahoma Biological Station. Martin Thiel is a Professor of Marine Biology at Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN) in Coquimbo, Chile. Klappentext Crustaceans are increasingly being used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management. Crustaceans have a very wide range of phenotypes and inhabit a diverse array of environments, ranging from the deep sea to high mountain lakes and even deserts. The evolution of their life histories has permitted crustaceans to successfully colonize this variety of habitats. Few other taxa exhibit such a variety of life histories and behavior. A comprehensive overview of their life histories is essential to the understanding of many aspects of their success in marine and terrestrial environments. This volume provides a general overview of crustacean life histories. Crustaceans have particular life history adaptations that have permitted them to conquer all environments on earth. Crustacean life cycles have evolved to maximize fecundity, growth, and ageing, in a wide range of environmental conditions. Individual contributions contrast benefits and costs of different life histories including sexual versus asexual production, semelparity versus iteroparity, and planktonic larvae versus direct development. Important aspects of particular behaviors are presented (e.g. migrations, defense and territorial behaviors, anti-predator behavior, symbiosis). Zusammenfassung Crustaceans are increasingly being used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management. Crustaceans have a very wide range of phenotypes and inhabit a diverse array of environments, ranging from the deep sea to high mountain lakes and even deserts. The evolution of their life histories has permitted crustaceans to successfully colonize this variety of habitats. Few other taxa exhibit such a variety of life histories and behavior. A comprehensive overview of their life histories is essential to the understanding of many aspects of their success in marine and terrestrial environments. This volume provides a general overview of crustacean life histories. Crustaceans have particular life history adaptations that have permitted them to conquer all environments on earth. Crustacean life cycles have evolved to maximize fecundity, growth, and ageing, in a wide range of environmental conditions. Individual contributions contrast benefits and costs of different life histories including sexual versus asexual production, semelparity versus iteroparity, and planktonic larvae versus direct development. Important aspects of particular behaviors are presented (e.g. migrations, defense and territorial behaviors, anti-predator behavior, symbiosis). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Crustacean Life Cycles - Developmental Strategies and Environmental Adaptions Chapter 2: Body Size, Maturation Size, and Growth Rate of Crustaceans Chapter 3: Clutch Mass, Offspring Mass, and Clutch Size: Body-mass Scaling and Taxonomic and Environmental Variation Chapter 4. Semelparity and Iteroparity Chapter 5. Life History Perspectives on Voltinism Chapter 6. Larvae and Direct Development Chapter 7. Growing Old: Aging in Crustacea Chapter 8. Life-cycle and Seasonal Migrations Chapter 9. Diel Vertical Migration of Aquatic Crustaceans - Adaptive Role, Underlying Mechanisms and Ecosystem Consequences Chapter 10. Uncharted Territories: Defense of Space in Crustace...
