| Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Balian, E. V. (Editor), Lévêque, C. (Editor), Segers, H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402082584 ISBN-13: 9781402082580 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment gives a state of the art assessment of the diversity and distribution of Metazoa in the continental waters of the world. The project deals with all major animal groups plus the macrophytes, and encompasses the complete array of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems. It is the most comprehensive study of species- and genus-level diversity and chorology of the global freshwater fauna to date, and is the first to present comparable data on the different faunal groups concerned. The project draws from the collected expertise of numerous world-renowned taxonomic experts that have bundled efforts to produce this outstanding volume. The result is invaluable to all scientists, managers and conservationists interested in non-marine aquatic animals. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biological Diversity - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Lakes, Ponds & Swamps - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology |
| Dewey: 577 |
| Series: Developments in Hydrobiology |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7.7" W x 10.3" (3.70 lbs) 640 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: such as ?oodplains and temporary ponds) challenge this de?nition. Our decision has been to include such The term aquatic macrophytes refers to a diverse species as aquatic macrophytes, only if their group of aquatic photosynthetic organisms, all large environmental survival is clearly dependent upon enough to see with the naked eye. It includes regular re?lling of their aquatic habitat with a source macroalgae of the divisions Chlorophyta (green of fresh to brackish water. algae), Xanthophyta (yellow-green algae) and Rho- The freshwater macroalgae are primarily rep- dophyta (red algae) and the blue-green algae (more sented by the green algae, especially the Charales, correctly known as Cyanobacteria), Bryophyta commonly known as the stoneworts or brittleworts (mosses and liverworts), Pteridophyta (ferns) and (e.g., Chara and Nitella spp.). The Charales are often Spermatophyta (seed-bearing plants), the vegetative mistaken for higher plants because they have erect parts of which actively grow either permanently or central stalks that are divided into short nodes and periodically (for at least several weeks each year) long internodes of elongated multinucleate cells, with submerged below, ?oating on, or growing up through a whorl of branchlets at each node (Fig. 1)." |