Lifestyles and Feeding Biology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199797028)

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.

Author: Martin Thiel
ISBN-10: 0199797021
ISBN-13: 9780199797028
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2015
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.50w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2015