Viith International Colloquium on Amphipoda (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792314592)

Comparative fore-gut morphology of Antarctic Amphipoda (Crustacea) adapted to different food sources.- Methods for the study of amphipod swimming: behavior, morphology, and fluid dynamics.- Is the oostegite structure of amphipods determined by their phylogeny or is it an adaptation to their environment?.- The distribution and frequency of the type II microtrichs in somen gammaridean amphipods.- What can vicariance biogeographic models tell us about the distributional history of subterranean amphipods?.- Actual state of gammaridean taxonomy and catalogue of species from Chile.- Gammaridean and caprellidean fauna from Brazil.- Amphipods from hydrotechnical structures in the north-western part of the Black Sea.- Structure of a suprabenthic shelf sub-community of gammaridean Amphipoda in the Bay of Fundy compared with similar sub-communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.- Amphipod crustaceans as an important component of zoobenthos of the shallow Antarctic sublittoral.- Patterns of abundance of exoedicerotid amphipods on sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia.- Local distributions of sandhoppers and landhoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) in the coastal zone of western Tasmania.- Ingestion of live filamentous diatoms by the Great Lakes amphipod, Diporeia sp.: a case study of the limited value of gut contents analysis.- A comparison of water loss and gill areas in two supralittoral amphipods from New Zealand.- Lack of oxygen and low pH as limiting factors for Gammarus in Hessian brooks and rivers.- Volumetric growth in gammaridean Amphipoda.- Respiration of Orchomene plebs (Hurley, 1965) and Waldeckia obesa (Chevreux, 1905) from Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic).- Eco-physiological characteristics of some common caprellid species in the Possjet Bay (Japan Sea).- A review of the reproductive bionomics of aquatic gammaridean amphipods: variation of life history traits with latitude, depth, aquatic salinity and superfamily.- Two types of maternal care for juveniles observed in Caprella monoceros Mayer, 1890 and Caprella decipiens Mayer, 1890 (Amphipoda: Caprellidae).- Tube-building behavior in Grandidierella, and two species of Cerapus.- Precopulatory mating behavior and sexual dimorphism in the amphipod Crustacea.- Redescription of Caprogrammarus gurjanovae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Hokkaido, Japan, with notes on the taxonomic status of Caprogammarus.- A new marine interstitial ingolfiellid (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ingolfiellidea) from Tenerife and Hierro.

Author: L. Watling
ISBN-10: 079231459X
ISBN-13: 9780792314592
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1991
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.91lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.75d