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Aquatic Insects : Challenges to Populations.
Title:
Aquatic Insects : Challenges to Populations.
Author:
Lancaster, J.
ISBN:
9781845934330
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
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 Framework -- 10 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 Macroinvertebrates -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Considers the challenges facing insect populations in aquatic environments and how they have adapted to achieve such prominence in virtually all habitats.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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