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Aquatic insects : challenges to populations : proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 24th symposium / edited by Jill Lancaster and Rob A. Briers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royal Entomological Society of London. Symposium (24th : 2007 : University of Edinburgh)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aquatic insects--Congresses.
- Aquatic insects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI International, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers the challenges facing insect populations in aquatic environments and how they have adapted to achieve such prominence in virtually all habitats.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Aquatic Insect Adaptations to Winter Cold and Ice; 2 Saline-water Insects: Ecology, Physiology and Evolution; 3 Larval Cannibalism and Population Dynamics of Dragonflies; 4 The Ecology of Host-Parasite Interactions in Aquatic Insects; 5 Effects of Drought on Stream Insects and its Ecological Consequences; 6 The Effect of Floods on Aquatic Invertebrate Communities; 7 Life-history and Behavioural Adaptations to Flow Regime in Aquatic Insects; 8 Movement and Dispersion of Insects in Stream Channels: What Role does Flow Play?
- 9 Population Responses of Drifting Stream Invertebrates to Spatial Environmental Variability: an Emerging Conceptual Framework10 What is the Spatial Structure of Stream Insect Populations? Dispersal Behaviour at Different Life-history Stages; 11 Polarization Vision in Aquatic Insects and Ecological Traps for Polarotactic Insects; 12 Evolution and Physiology of Flight in Aquatic Insects; 13 Evolutionary Drivers and the Ecological Traits of Adult Aquatic Insects; 14 Population Genetic Structure in Stream Insects: What Have We Learned?
- 15 Habitat Constraints and the Generation of Diversity in Freshwater MacroinvertebratesIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-76559-7
- 9786611765590
- 1-84593-433-4
- OCLC:
- 271690567
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