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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands - An International Perspective on their Ecology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands - An International Perspective on their Ecology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Wetlands are among the world's most valuable and most threatened
habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the
invertebrate fauna holds a focal position. Most of the biological
diversity in wetlands is found within resident invertebrate
assemblages, and those invertebrates are the primary trophic link
between lower plants and higher vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, fish,
and birds). As such, most scientists, managers, consultants, and
students who work in the world's wetlands should become better
informed about the invertebrate components in their habitats of
interest. Our book serves to fill this need by assembling the
world's most prominent ecologists working on freshwater wetland
invertebrates, and having them provide authoritative perspectives
on each the world's most important freshwater wetland types. The
initial chapter of the book provides a primer on freshwater wetland
invertebrates, including how they are uniquely adapted for life in
wetland environments and how they contribute to important
ecological functions in wetland ecosystems. The next 15 chapters
deal with invertebrates in the major wetlands across the globe
(rock pools, alpine ponds, temperate temporary ponds, Mediterranean
temporary ponds, turloughs, peatlands, permanent marshes, Great
Lakes marshes, Everglades, springs, beaver ponds, temperate
floodplains, neotropical floodplains, created wetlands, waterfowl
marshes), each chapter written by groups of prominent scientists
intimately knowledgeable about the individual wetland types. Each
chapter reviews the relevant literature, provides a synthesis of
the most important ecological controls on the resident invertebrate
fauna, and highlights important conservation concerns. The final
chapter synthesizes the 15 habitat-based chapters, providing a
macroscopic perspective on natural variation of invertebrate
assemblage structure across the world's wetlands and a paradigm for
understanding how global variation and environmental factors shape
wetland invertebrate communities.
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