Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwide pollution. Both factors may influence the finely balanced interrelationships between parasites and endangered hosts especially in specialized regions such as Antarctica. Before this background the present book offers a broad spectrum of important parasite-host interrelations in times of ecosystem changes written by experienced and renown international specialists.

List of contents

Introduction (Mehlhorn, Klimpel).- Antarctic biodiversity of aquatic parasites (Marcogliese).- Antarctic Digenea (Bray).- Antarctic Monogenea (Kritsky, Boeger).- Antactic Cestoda and Nematoda (Rocka, Laskowski).- Antarctic anisakid Nematoda (Klimpel, Kuhn, Münster).- Antarctic Acanthocephala (Zdzitowiecki, Laskowski).- Antarctic parasitic Crustacea (Ho or Williams).- Antarctic lice of seals (Mehlhorn).- Antarctic leeches (Bielecki, Rokicka).- Parasite communities of Penguins (Diaz, Barbosa).- Parasite communities of mammals (McFarlane or Mattiucci, Nascetti).- Parasite communities of fish (Mattiucci, Nascetti or George-Nascimento).- History of Antarctic parasitological research (MacKenzie, Hemmingsen).

Summary

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwide pollution. Both factors may influence the finely balanced interrelationships between parasites and endangered hosts especially in specialized regions such as Antarctica. Before this background the present book offers a broad spectrum of important parasite-host interrelations in times of ecosystem changes written by experienced and renown international specialists.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sven Klimpel (Editor), Thoma Kuhn (Editor), Thomas Kuhn (Editor), Heinz Mehlhorn (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319834962
• ISBN: 978-3-31-983496-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 421 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 226 p. 55 illus., 35 illus. in color.
• Series: Parasitology Research Monographs; Parasitology Research Monographs
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; B, Climate Change, Evolution, Ecology, Zoology & animal sciences, Biodiversity, Biology, life sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Animal Ecology, Zoology, Taxonomy & systematics, Biological Taxonomy, Zoology: insects (entomology) & other invertebrates, Invertebrates, Animal taxonomy, Animal systematics, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Parasitology, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques