Life Histories.Vol.5
Volume 5
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 experts studying a wide range of crustacean taxa and topics, this volume synthesizes current research in a format that is accessible to a wide scientific audience.
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Crustaceans are increasingly being used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management. Crustaceans have a very wide range of phenotypes and inhabit a diverse array of environments, ranging from the deep sea to high mountain lakes and even deserts. The evolution of their life histories has permitted crustaceans to successfully colonize this variety of habitats. Few other taxa exhibit such a variety of life histories and behavior. A comprehensive overview of their life histories is essential to the understanding of many aspects of their success in marine and terrestrial environments. This volume provides a general overview of crustacean life histories. Crustaceans have particular life history adaptations that have permitted them to conquer all environments on earth. Crustacean life cycles have evolved to maximize fecundity, growth, and ageing, in a wide range of environmental conditions. Individual contributions contrast benefits and costs of different life histories including sexual versus asexual production, semelparity versus iteroparity, and planktonic larvae versus direct development. Important aspects of particular behaviors are presented (e.g. migrations, defense and territorial behaviors, anti-predator behavior, symbiosis).
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Life Histories.Vol.5 “
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Crustacean Life Cycles - Developmental Strategies and Environmental Adaptions
- Chapter 2: Body Size, Maturation Size, and Growth Rate of Crustaceans
- Chapter 3: Clutch Mass, Offspring Mass, and Clutch Size: Body-mass Scaling and Taxonomic and Environmental Variation
- Chapter 4. Semelparity and Iteroparity
- Chapter 5. Life History Perspectives on Voltinism
- Chapter 6. Larvae and Direct Development
- Chapter 7. Growing Old: Aging in Crustacea
- Chapter 8. Life-cycle and Seasonal Migrations
- Chapter 9. Diel Vertical Migration of Aquatic Crustaceans - Adaptive Role, Underlying Mechanisms and Ecosystem Consequences
- Chapter 10. Uncharted Territories: Defense of Space in Crustacea
- Chapter 11. Evolutionary Ecology of Burrow Construction and Social Life
- Chapter 12. Predator-induced Defenses in Crustacea
- Chapter 13. Life History Adaptation in Prey
- Chapter 14. Cannibalism in Crustaceans
- Chapter 15. The Life Cycle of Symbiotic Crustaceans: A Primer
- Chapter 16. Daphnia as a Model for Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
- Index
Autoren-Porträt
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- 2018, 454 Seiten, Maße: 18,3 x 25,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Martin Thiel, Gary A. Wellborn
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190620277
- ISBN-13: 9780190620271
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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
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