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Horseshoe crabs, those mysterious ancient mariners, lured me into
the sea as a child along the beaches of New Jersey. Drawn to their
shiny domed shells and spiked tails, I could not resist picking
them up, turning them over and watching the wondrous mechanical
movement of their glistening legs, articulating with one another as
smoothly as the inner working of a clock. What was it like to be a
horseshoe crab, I wondered? What did they eat? Did they always move
around together? Why were some so large and others much smaller?
How old were they, anyway? What must it feel like to live
underwater? What else was out there, down there, in the cool, green
depths that gave rise to such intriguing creatures? The only way to
find out, I reasoned, would be to go into the ocean and see for
myself, and so I did, and more than 60 years later, I still do.
This book reports significant progress of scientific research on
horseshoe crabs, including aspects of evolution, genetics, ecology,
population dynamics, general biology and physiology, within the
recent 10 years. It also highlights the emerging issues related to
world-wide conservation threats, status and needs. The
contributions in this book represent part of an ongoing global
effort to increase data and concept sharing to support basic
research and advance conservation for horseshoe crabs.
The first International Conference on Horseshoe Crab’s
Conservation conducted at Dowling College, USA, (2007) and it’s
proceedings published by Springer in 2009, prompted the continued
research and conservation efforts presented at subsequent
conferences and colloquium in Hong Kong, Taiwan, (2011);
San Diego, CA, (2014), (CERF); Japan, Sasebo (2015) and an
accepted inclusion for a special session on Horseshoe Crabs at the
2017 CERF Conference held in Providence, RI, USA. All these
aforementioned conferences contributed manuscripts, posters,
workshop “position papers”, and oral presentations the majority
of which have not been published in total. In 2015, Carmichael et
al. had published by Springer the majority of manuscripts from the
2011 Hong Kong / Taiwan conference. However, workshop results and
all subsequent presentations and workshops were not. The Japan
conference presented over 40 papers alone. A collection of all
workshop summaries, poster presentations and new manuscript
submittals (San Diego, CA; Sasebo, Japan; and Providence, RI) as
well as products prepared for the IUCN World Congress in Hawaii,
(2016), are included potential contributions for review in this
compilation now available for global distribution in
this Springer Nature publication.The “Proceedings of
International Conferences on the Biology and Conservation of
Horseshoe Crabs”, thus contains over 50 manuscripts and a
diversified collection of documents, photos and memorabilia
covering all four of the horseshoe crab species globally: their
biology, ecology evolution, educational, and societal importance.
This book exposes the impacts that humans have imposed on all four
of these species, revealing through the coordinated effort of
horseshoe crab scientists with the IUCN, of the worldwide need for
a clear conservative effort to protect these paleo- survival
organisms from a looming extinction event. Biologists,
conservationists, educators, and health professionals will all
welcome this book not only for exploration of its pharmacological
interest, but also for the mystery of their longevity. This book
also clarifies the future research needs and the conservation
agenda for the species worldwide. Anyone working or studying
estuaries on a global scale, will need to obtain this seminal work
on horseshoe crabs.
The first International Conference on Horseshoe Crab's Conservation
conducted at Dowling College, USA, (2007) and it's proceedings
published by Springer in 2009, prompted the continued research and
conservation efforts presented at subsequent conferences and
colloquium in Hong Kong, Taiwan, (2011); San Diego, CA, (2014),
(CERF); Japan, Sasebo (2015) and an accepted inclusion for a
special session on Horseshoe Crabs at the 2017 CERF Conference held
in Providence, RI, USA. All these aforementioned conferences
contributed manuscripts, posters, workshop "position papers", and
oral presentations the majority of which have not been published in
total. In 2015, Carmichael et al. had published by Springer the
majority of manuscripts from the 2011 Hong Kong / Taiwan
conference. However, workshop results and all subsequent
presentations and workshops were not. The Japan conference
presented over 40 papers alone. A collection of all workshop
summaries, poster presentations and new manuscript submittals (San
Diego, CA; Sasebo, Japan; and Providence, RI) as well as products
prepared for the IUCN World Congress in Hawaii, (2016), are
included potential contributions for review in this compilation now
available for global distribution in this Springer Nature
publication.The "Proceedings of International Conferences on the
Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs", thus contains over 50
manuscripts and a diversified collection of documents, photos and
memorabilia covering all four of the horseshoe crab species
globally: their biology, ecology evolution, educational, and
societal importance. This book exposes the impacts that humans have
imposed on all four of these species, revealing through the
coordinated effort of horseshoe crab scientists with the IUCN, of
the worldwide need for a clear conservative effort to protect these
paleo- survival organisms from a looming extinction event.
Biologists, conservationists, educators, and health professionals
will all welcome this book not only for exploration of its
pharmacological interest, but also for the mystery of their
longevity. This book also clarifies the future research needs and
the conservation agenda for the species worldwide. Anyone working
or studying estuaries on a global scale, will need to obtain this
seminal work on horseshoe crabs.
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