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Lifestyles and feeding biology /

"This volume is aimed at providing a broad view of crustacean lifestyles, and, from this vantage point, increasing our understanding of the significance of features of crustacean morphology. Crustaceans are probably the most diverse of all groups, whether insects are included or not. As a resul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thiel, Martin, 1962- (Editor ), Watling, Les (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Colección:Natural history of the crustacea ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The role of natural history in understanding the diversity of lifestyles in crustaceans / Les Watling and Martin Thiel
  • Diversity of lifestyles, sexual systems, and larval development patterns in sessile crustaceans / Benny K.K. Chan and Jens T. Høeg
  • The tube-dwelling lifestyle in crustaceans and its relation to feeding / P. Geoffrey Moore and Lucas B. Eastman
  • Burrow dwelling in Crustacea / R. James A. Atkinson and Lucas B. Eastman
  • Crustaceans inhabiting domiciles excavated from macrophytes and stone / Barbara A. Mejaes, Alistair G.B. Poore, and Martin Thiel
  • Crustaceans in mobile homes / Patsy A. McLaughlin
  • Crustaceans as symbionts : an overview of their diversity, host use, and lifestyles / J. Antonio Baeza
  • Predator adaptations of decapods / Kari L. Lavalli and Ehud Spanier
  • Small free-living crustaceans / Richard B. Taylor
  • Planktonic crustaceans : lifestyles in the water column / Rubén Escribano and Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño
  • Lifestyles of the species-rich and fabulous : the deep-sea crustaceans / George D.F. Wilson and Shane T. Ahyong
  • Lifestyles of terrestrial crustaceans / Alastair Richardson and Paula Beatriz Araujo
  • Freshwater crustaceans : adaptations to complex inland habitats and species interactions / Alan P. Covich
  • Crustaceans of extreme environments / Chiara Benvenuto, Brenton Knott, and Stephen C. Weeks
  • Filter-feeding mechanisms in crustaceans / Hans Ulrik Riisgård
  • Deposit-feeding : obtaining nutrition from sediment / Les Watling
  • Lifestyles of detritus-feeding crustaceans / Sven Hammann and Martin Zimmer
  • Grazers of macroalgae and higher plants / Veijo Jormalainen
  • Foraging behavior of crustacean predators and scavengers / Lucas B. Eastman and Martin Thiel.