Editors:
- First such reference that cover all aspects of natural history and systematics of Diving Beetles
- This book will have cross-system appeal, as anyone working with food webs of freshwater systems (e.g., ponds, lakes, streams) will benefit from an overview of the current knowledge of dytiscids
- This volume also will appeal to those working on aquatic beetles, aquatic predators and beetles and predation in general
- Includes color photographs
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) constitute one of the largest families of freshwater insects (~ 4,200 species). Although dytiscid adults and larvae are ubiquitous throughout a variety of aquatic habitats and are significant predators on other aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates, there are no compilations that have focused on summarizing the knowledge of their ecology, systematics, and biology. Such knowledge would benefit anyone working in aquatic systems where dytiscids are an important part of the food web. Moreover, this work will allow a greater appreciation of dytiscids as model organisms for investigations of fundamental principles derived from ecological and evolutionary theory. Contributed chapters are by authors who are actively engaged in studying dytiscids and each chapter offers a synthesis of the current knowledge of a variety of topics and will provide future directions for research.
Editors and Affiliations
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Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA
Donald A. Yee
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Editors: Donald A. Yee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9109-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0590-3Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9109-0Published: 14 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 468
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Physiology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology