Lifestyles and Feeding Biology.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199797066
- 595.3
- QL435 -- .L544 2015eb
Cover -- Series -- Lifestyles and Feeding Biology -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 The Role of Natural History in Understanding the Diversity of Lifestyles in Crustaceans -- 2 Diversity of Lifestyles, Sexual Systems, and Larval Development Patterns in Sessile Crustaceans -- 3 The Tube-dwelling Lifestyle in Crustaceans and Its Relation to Feeding -- 4 Burrow Dwelling in Crustacea -- 5 Crustaceans Inhabiting Domiciles Excavated from Macrophytes and Stone -- 6 Crustaceans in Mobile Homes -- 7 Crustaceans as Symbionts: An Overview of Their Diversity, Host Use, and Lifestyles -- 8 Predator Adaptations of Decapods -- 9 Small Free-living Crustaceans -- 10 Planktonic Crustaceans: Lifestyles in the Water Column -- 11 Lifestyles of the Species-rich and Fabulous: The Deep-sea Crustaceans -- 12 Lifestyles of Terrestrial Crustaceans -- 13 Freshwater Crustaceans: Adaptations to Complex Inland Habitats and Species Interactions -- 14 Crustaceans of Extreme Environments -- 15 Filter-feeding Mechanisms in Crustaceans -- 16 Deposit Feeding: Obtaining Nutrition from Sediment -- 17 Lifestyles of Detritus-feeding Crustaceans -- 18 Grazers of Macroalgae and Higher Plants -- 19 Foraging Behavior of Crustacean Predators and Scavengers -- Index.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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