Book Details
Orange Code:76520
Paperback:593 pages
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1. The Role of Natural History in Understanding the Diversity of Lifestyles in Crustaceans2. Diversity of Lifestyles, Sexual Systems, and Larval Development Patterns in Sessile Crustaceans3. The Tube-dwelling Lifestyle in Crustaceans and Its Relation to Feeding4. Burrow Dwelling in Crustacea5. Crustaceans in Mobile Homes6. Crustaceans as Symbionts: An Overview of Their Diversity, Host Use, and Lifestyles7. Predator Adaptations of Decapods8. Small Free-living Crustaceans9. Planktonic Crustaceans: Lifestyles in the Water Column10. Lifestyles of the Species-rich and Fabulous: The Deep-sea Crustaceans11. Lifestyles of Terrestrial Crustaceans12. Crustaceans of Extreme Environments13. Filter-feeding Mechanisms in Crustaceans14. Deposit Feeding: Obtaining Nutrition from Sediment15. Foraging Behavior of Crustacean Predators and Scavengers
Description:
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.
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