The only up-to-date reference work for covering the ecology, classification, and identification of freshwater aquatic invertebrates of the world.
1. Introduction to Invertebrates of Inland Waters
2. Overview of Inland Water Habitats
3. Collection and Culturing Techniques
4. Functional Relationships of Freshwater Invertebrates
5. Ecology of Invasive Alien Invertebrates
6. Economic Aspects of Freshwater Invertebrates
7. Free-Living Protozoa
8. Phylum Porifera
9. Phylum Cnidaria
10. Phylum Platyhelminthes
11. Phylum Nemertea
12. Phylum Gastrotricha
13. Phylum Rotifera
14. Phylum Nematoda
15. Phylum Nematomorpha
16. Phyla Ectoprocta and Entoprocta (Bryozoans)
17. Phylum Tardigrada
18. Introduction to Mollusca and the Class Gastropoda
19. Class Bivalvia
20. Introduction to Annelida and the Class Polychaeta
21. Class Clitellata: Oligochaeta
22. Class Clitellata: Branchiobdellida
23. Class Clitellata: Hirudinida and Acanthobdellida
24. Introduction to the Phylum Arthropoda
25. Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida
26. Subphylum Myriapoda, Class Diplopoda
27. Introduction to “Crustacea
28. Class Branchiopoda
29. Class Maxillopoda
30. Class Ostracoda
31. Class Malacostraca, Superorders Peracarida and Syncarida
32. Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda
33. Hexapoda – Introduction to Insects and Collembola
34. Order Ephemeroptera
35. Order Odonata
36. Order Plecoptera
37. Order Hemiptera
38. Order Trichoptera
39. Order Coleoptera
40. Order Diptera
41. Minor Insect Orders
Dr. James H. Thorp is a professor and senior scientist at the
University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS, United States). Prior to 2001,
he was a distinguished professor and dean at Clarkson University,
department chair and professor at the University of Louisville,
associate professor and director of the Calder Ecology Center at
Fordham University, and research ecologist at Georgia’s Savannah
River Ecology Laboratory. He received his Baccalaureate from the
University of Kansas and Masters and PhD degrees from North
Carolina State. Prof. Thorp has been on the editorial board of
three freshwater journals and is a former president of the
International Society for River Science. His research interests run
the gamut from organismal biology to community, ecosystem, and
macrosystem ecology. While his research emphasizes aquatic
invertebrates, he also studies fish ecology, especially food webs
related. He has published more than 150 research articles and 10
books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp
and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.
Dr. D. Christopher Rogers is a research zoologist at the University
of Kansas with the Kansas Biological Survey and is affiliated with
the Biodiversity Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree from the
University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. Christopher
specializes in freshwater crustaceans (particularly the
Branchiopoda and the Decapoda) and the invertebrate fauna of
seasonally astatic wetlands on a global scale. He has numerous peer
reviewed publications in crustacean taxonomy and invertebrate
ecology, as well as published popular and scientific field guides
and identification manuals to freshwater invertebrates. Christopher
is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crustacean Biology and a
founding member of the Southwest Association of Freshwater
Invertebrate Taxonomists. He has been involved in aquatic
invertebrate conservation efforts all over the world.
"...beautifully laid out, solidly bound, with crisp print and
vibrant (mostly) high-resolution images. My recommendation is to
purchase this book even if you already own the third edition, as
redundancies are outweighed by new material;..." --Bulletin of the
Entomological Society of Canada, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater
Invertebrates, Volume 1, Fourth Edition
"...a comprehensive revision and expansion of the previous
edition...I recommend it as valuable reading for everyone who needs
to develop a more detailed world-wide understanding of freshwater
invertebrates." --European Journal of Entomology
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