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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

With a foreword by Vincent H. Resh

By: Wilfried Wichard,Werner Arens,Gerhard Eisenbeis

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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

With a foreword by Vincent H. Resh

By: Wilfried Wichard,Werner Arens,Gerhard Eisenbeis

A completely updated and translated edition of the author's famous book Atlas zur Biologie der Wasserinsekten. br/> This comprehensive work gives a vivid overview of the numerous adaptations of aquatic insects to life in an aquatic environment. 148 picture plates show more than 900 scanning electron microscope photographs with magnifications from 2.5 to 12,000 times natural size. Besides the habitus, they depict the wealth of morphological structures on the body surfaces. Explanatory texts as well as more than 150 additional line drawings, graphs and diagrams accompany each picture plate on its opposite page. In order to create an overview, on which the readers can orient themselves, a broad spectrum of all insect orders that include aquatic and semiaquatic insects has been chosen: Collembola, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Heteroptera (Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha), Megaloptera, Planipennia, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Trichoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera (Tipulidae, Limoniidae, Blephariceridae, Deuterophlebiidae, Psychodidae, Ptychopteridae, Dixidae, Chaoboridae, Culicidae, Simuliidae, Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, Stratiomyidae, Athericidae, Tabanidae, Syrphidae, Ephydridae, Muscidae). The book includes aquatic insects from all continents and from a wide variety of aquatic habitats. The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects was inspired by the fascinating variety of aquatic insects and their diverse adaptations to a life in the aquatic environment. Underlying the diversity of life histories and differing life forms (burrowers, climbers, sprawlers, clingers, and swimmers) and the adaptations of mouthparts and feeding behaviour to the trophic systems (shredders, collectors, scrapers, piercers, predators, and parasites) are the necessary physiological mechanisms that make it possible for the insects to ecologically adapt to an aquatic mode of life. The central themes of the book, the basic functions of an aquatic mode of life, respiration and osmoregulation, have been described for all of the insect groups. Without these basic functions life in fresh water would not be possible. They are important physiological components and play a significant role in answering the question: What makes originally land dwelling insects turn into aquatic insects? The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects is intended for both professional and amateur entomologists working with aquatic insects as well as for students of biology and limnology and should reveal to them the fully adapted aquatic insects, which participate in freshwater ecosystems. The Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects has already had some fine reviews in entomological journals.

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9004473521

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Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

By: Gerhard Eisenbeis,Wilfried Wichard

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Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

By: Gerhard Eisenbeis,Wilfried Wichard

From the Foreword: "Anyone who has glimpsed a sample of soil animals, especially the soil arthropods, through the binocular microscope will never forget the fascination of their abundant shapes and structures ... electron microscopy has added another dimension which multiplies the initial fascination. When I leaf through this "atlas" my attention is repeatedly caught by the numerous pictures. ... the richness of form and function of the soil arthropods has proved to be an inexhaustible source of biological interest. The authors ... demonstrate this in a praiseworthy manner. ...This atlas offers every teacher the opportunity of rapidly obtaining an overview and thus compiling the most vivid teaching material. ... Finally, the index offers easy access to each individual aspect of the subject to those who are motivated to study further.

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Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

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Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed us. But they are in many ways in danger and their conservation is therefore a most important focus for science, governments and society as a whole. A team of world recognised researchers have prepared this first English edition based on the 16th European edition. • The precursors and the processes of soil development • The physical, biological and chemical properties of soils • Nutrients and Pollutants • The various soil classifications with the main focus on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) • The most important soils and soil landscapes of the world • Soil Evaluation Techniques • Basic Principles of Soil Conservation Whoever works with soils needs this book.

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Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

By: Gerhard Eisenbeis,Wilfried Wichard

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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

With a foreword by Vincent H. Resh

By: Wilfried Wichard,Werner Arens,Gerhard Eisenbeis

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Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods

Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

Biological Atlas of Aquatic Insects

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