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An introduction to the Aquatic insects of North America
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An introduction to the Aquatic insects of North America

Author: Richard W Merritt; Kenneth W Cummins
Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 4th edView all editions and formats
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Introduction to the Aquatic insects of North America.
Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., c2008
(OCoLC)741812394
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard W Merritt; Kenneth W Cummins
ISBN: 9780757541285 0757541283 9780757543883 075754388X 0757550495 9780757550492
OCLC Number: 171021041
Description: xvi, 1158 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Details: System requirements (Windows): Windows 98/ME/XP, 500 MHz Pentium of faster, recommended 128 MB of RAM, sound card and speakers, 8X of faster CD-ROM drive.; System requirements (Macintosh): PowerPC, Mac OS X 10.1-10.3, G3 Processor, 128 MB of RAM, 8X or faster CD-ROM drive.
Contents: Preface --
Acknowledgments --
List of contributors --
Color photo gallery --
ch. 1. Introduction / R.W. Merritt, M.B. Berg, and K.W. Cummins --
ch. 2. General morphology of aquatic insects / K.W. Cummins, R.W. Merritt, and M.B. Berg --
ch. 3. Sampling aquatic insects : collection devices, statistical considerations, and rearing procedures / R.W. Merritt, K.W. Cummins, V.H. Resh, and D.P. Batzer --
ch. 4. Aquatic insect respiration / V.H. Resh, D.B. Buchwalter, G.A. Lamberti, and C.H. Eriksen --
ch. 5. Habitat, life history, secondary production, and behavioral adaptations of aquatic insects / A.D. Huryn, J.B. Wallace, and N.H. Anderson --
ch. 6. Ecology and distribution of aquatic insects / K.W. Cummins, R.W. Merritt, and M.B. Berg --
ch. 7. Use of aquatic insects in biomonitoring / D.M. Rosenberg, V.H. Resh, and R.S. King --
ch. 8. Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary adaptations of aquatic insects / K.W. Will and V.H. Resh --
ch .9. General classification and key to the orders of aquatic and semiaquatic insects / P.S. Cranston and H.V. Daly --
ch. 10. Aquatic collembola / K.A. Christiansen and R.J. Snider --
ch. 11. Ephemeroptera / R.D. Waltz and S.K. Burian --
ch. 12. Odonata / K.J. Tennessen --
ch. 13. Semiaquatic orthoptera / R.G. Bland --
ch. 14. Plecoptera / K.W. Steward and B.P. Stark --
ch. 15. Aquatic and semiaquatic hemiptera / J.T. Polhemus. ch. 16. Megaloptera and aquatic neuroptera / O.S. Flint, Jr., E.D. Evans, and H.H. Neunzig --
ch .17. Trichoptera families / G.B. Wiggins and D.C. Currie --
ch. 18. Trichoptera genera / J.C. Morse and R.W. Holzenthal --
ch. 19. Aquatic and semiaquatic Lepidoptera / M.A. Solis --
ch. 20. Aquatic coleoptera / D.S. White and R.E. Roughley --
ch. 21. Aquatic hymenoptera / A.M.R. Bennett --
ch. 22 Aquatic diptera --
pt. 1. Larve of acquatic diptera / G.W. Courtney and R.W. Merritt --
pt. 2. Pupae and adults of aquatic diptera / R.W. Merritt and D.W. Webb --
ch. 23. Tipulidae / G.W. Byers and J.K. Gelhaus --
ch. 24. Culicidae / J.R. Wallace and E.D. Walker --
ch. 25. Simuliidae / P.H. Adler and D.C. Currie --
ch. 26. Chironomidae / L.C. Ferrington, Jr., M.B. Berg, and W.P. Coffman --
Glossary / M. Allen and M.B. Berg --
Bibliography --
Index / J. Novak.
Responsibility: edited by R.W. Merritt, K.W. Cummins, M.B. Berg.
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