Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin, including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean islands, but excluding other biogeographic locations with Mediterranean climates located outside the region. The book provides an extensive description of the taxonomy and ecology of aquatic arthropods encountered in lentic and lotic habitats, as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats. It offers expanded taxonomic identification keys to major groups of arthropods with a description of their ecology and distribution. Keys for insects include aquatic larval stages and water-dwelling adults of Coleoptera and Heteroptera.
Additional sections focus on taxa that can be encountered in adjacent brackish and estuary ecosystems as long as the taxon primarily occurs in freshwaters. This is a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater arthropods with an introduction to recent molecular tools for identifications. It will be particularly useful for freshwater ecologists, limnologists, environmentalists and students in the ecological sciences.
1. Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Ecology of Mediterranean freshwater ecosystems - p. 5 3. Chapter 3. Arthropoda - p. 17 4. Chapter 4. Class Branchiopoda - p. 41 5. Chapter 5. Class Ostracoda - p. 95 6. Chapter 6. Classes Copepoda and Ichthyostraca - p. 131 7. Chapter 7. Class Malacostraca (subclass Eumalacostraca) - p. 157 8. Chapter 8. Class Hexapoda: general introduction - p. 225 9. Chapter 9. Order Ephemeroptera - p. 283 10. Chapter 10. Order Plecoptera - p. 311 11. Chapter 11. Order Odonata - p. 327 12. Chapter 12. Order Hemiptera - p. 365 13. Chapter 13. Order Coleoptera - p. 397 14. Order Trichoptera - p. 437 15. Chapter 15. Order Diptera - p. 503 16. Abstract - p. 503 17. Diversity, distribution, and ecology of Diptera - p. 503 18. Aquatic Diptera - p. 506 19. Larval morphology of aquatic Diptera - p. 511 20. Sampling, identification, and preservation of larvae - p. 522 21. Aquatic and semiaquatic Diptera families in the Mediterranean Basin - p. 522 22. Lower Diptera - p. 524 23. Brachycera - p. 528 24. Key to larvae of aquatic and semiaquatic families of Diptera - p. 532 25. Acknowledgments - p. 535 26. Subchapter 15.1. Superfamily Tipuloidea - p. 536 27. Introduction - p. 536 28. General ecology - p. 536 29. Acknowledgments - p. 552 30. Subchapter 15.2. Family Chironomidae - p. 553 31. Subchapter 15.3. Family Simuliidae - p. 603 32. Index - p. 641
Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin, including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean islands, but excluding other biogeographic locations with Mediterranean climates located outside the region. The book provides an extensive description of the taxonomy and ecology of aquatic arthropods encountered in lentic and lotic habitats, as well as in less studied underground and estuarine habitats. It offers expanded taxonomic identification keys to major groups of arthropods with a description of their ecology and distribution. Keys for insects include aquatic larval stages and water-dwelling adults of Coleoptera and Heteroptera.
Additional sections focus on taxa that can be encountered in adjacent brackish and estuary ecosystems as long as the taxon primarily occurs in freshwaters. This is a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater arthropods with an introduction to recent molecular tools for identifications. It will be particularly useful for freshwater ecologists, limnologists, environmentalists and students in the ecological sciences.
1. Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Ecology of Mediterranean freshwater ecosystems - p. 5 3. Chapter 3. Arthropoda - p. 17 4. Chapter 4. Class Branchiopoda - p. 41 5. Chapter 5. Class Ostracoda - p. 95 6. Chapter 6. Classes Copepoda and Ichthyostraca - p. 131 7. Chapter 7. Class Malacostraca (subclass Eumalacostraca) - p. 157 8. Chapter 8. Class Hexapoda: general introduction - p. 225 9. Chapter 9. Order Ephemeroptera - p. 283 10. Chapter 10. Order Plecoptera - p. 311 11. Chapter 11. Order Odonata - p. 327 12. Chapter 12. Order Hemiptera - p. 365 13. Chapter 13. Order Coleoptera - p. 397 14. Order Trichoptera - p. 437 15. Chapter 15. Order Diptera - p. 503 16. Abstract - p. 503 17. Diversity, distribution, and ecology of Diptera - p. 503 18. Aquatic Diptera - p. 506 19. Larval morphology of aquatic Diptera - p. 511 20. Sampling, identification, and preservation of larvae - p. 522 21. Aquatic and semiaquatic Diptera families in the Mediterranean Basin - p. 522 22. Lower Diptera - p. 524 23. Brachycera - p. 528 24. Key to larvae of aquatic and semiaquatic families of Diptera - p. 532 25. Acknowledgments - p. 535 26. Subchapter 15.1. Superfamily Tipuloidea - p. 536 27. Introduction - p. 536 28. General ecology - p. 536 29. Acknowledgments - p. 552 30. Subchapter 15.2. Family Chironomidae - p. 553 31. Subchapter 15.3. Family Simuliidae - p. 603 32. Index - p. 641
