| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 509 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bivalve autecology -- Feeding and digestion -- Digestive anatomy -- Particle retention -- Particle ingestion -- Assimilation -- Non-particulate dietary components -- Feeding period -- Habitat -- Unionoids -- Corbiculoids -- Dreissena -- Reproduction -- Unionoid gonochorism -- Unionoid hermaphroditism -- The unionoid larval stage -- Dreissena -- Corbiculoids -- Summary -- 3 Gastropod autecology -- Feeding and digestion -- Pulmonate diet and habitat -- Planorbidae -- Physidae |
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Lymnaeidae -- Acroloxidae and Ancylidae -- Pulmonate reproduction -- Outcrossing -- Selfing -- Prosobranch diet and habitat -- Neritidae -- Pleuroceridae -- Pomatiopsidae -- Hydrobiidae -- Ampullariidae -- Viviparidae -- Bithyniidae -- Valvatidae -- Prosobranch reproduction -- Gonochorism -- Parthenogenesis -- Hermaphroditism -- Summary -- 4 Life history -- Genetics, environment, and demography -- Environment -- Population studies -- Reproductive effort -- Pisidium -- General survey -- The USR model -- Size at birth -- Pisidiids -- General survey -- Maturity -- Life cycle pattern -- Unionoids |
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Corbiculoids and Dreissena -- Gastropods -- Modelling life cycles -- Summary -- 5 Population dynamics and competition -- Population growth -- Laboratory studies -- Field studies -- Crowding -- Population regulation -- Experimental approaches -- Perturbations -- Long-term trends -- Interspecific competition -- Natural situations -- Corbicula and the North American bivalves -- Dreissena and the unionids -- Helisoma duryi -- The ampullariids -- The thiarids -- Summary -- 6 Parasitism -- The digenetic trematodes -- Prevalence -- Consequences -- Schistosomes -- Fasciola -- Echinostomes |
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Resistance -- Fasciola -- Schistosomes -- Echinostomes -- Population regulation -- Aspidogastrids -- Unionicolids -- Summary -- 7 Predation -- The malefactors -- Mammals -- Birds -- Turtles -- Salamanders -- Fish -- Crustaceans -- Insects -- Molluscs -- Leeches -- Triclads -- Defences -- Behaviour -- Shell -- Life history -- Consequences -- Community composition -- Distribution -- Summary -- 8 Biogeography -- Environmental calcium -- Laboratory studies -- Field studies -- Area -- Isolation -- Other environmental factors -- Community composition -- Summary -- 9 Communities |
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Terms and conditions -- Interspecific ecological overlap -- Gut content -- Feeding strategy -- Depth, temperature, and oxygen -- Substrate -- Current -- Models of species distribution -- Models of species similarity -- Models of species abundance -- The assembly of communities -- Summary -- Literature cited -- Index |
| Summary |
All aspects of the ecology of freshwater molluscs are discussed in this unique volume. Extensively referenced and providing a synthesis of work from the 19th century to the present day, this book will appeal to professional ecologists, evolutionary biologists and parasitologists interested in these diverse invertebrates |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-497) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gastropoda -- Ecology
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Bivalves -- Ecology
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Freshwater invertebrates -- Ecology
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Bivalves -- Ecology
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Freshwater invertebrates -- Ecology
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Gastropoda -- Ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511017286 |
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9780511017285 |
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0511037155 |
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9780511037153 |
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0511152450 |
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9780511152450 |
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0511052383 |
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9780511052385 |
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0511173407 |
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9780511173400 |
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9780521352109 |
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052135210X |
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9780511542008 |
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0511542003 |
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9780521359917 |
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0521359910 |
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