Life Histories: Volume 5

ISBN-13: 9780190620271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 454 str.

Gary A. Wellborn; Martin Thiel

Opis

Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, as few other taxa exhibit such a variety of body shapes and adaptations to particular habitats and environmental conditions. Life Histories is the fifth volume in The Natural History of the Crustacea series. An understanding of life histories is crucial to understanding the biology of this fascinating invertebrate group. Written by internationally recognized expertsstudying a wide range of crustacean taxa and topics, this volume synthesizes current research in a format that is accessible to a wide scientific audience.

Recenzje

A series of this high quality gives specialists a place to focus and nonspecialists a good place to get trenchant summaries that are not available elsewhere. Jeffrey Levinton, Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University, The Quarterly Review of Biology

O autorze

Gary A. Wellborn is Professor of Biology and Director of The University of Oklahoma Biological Station. Martin Thiel is a Professor of Marine Biology at Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN) in Coquimbo, Chile.