Zoology: Invertebrates

The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engin...

As one of the worlds most popular holiday destinations, the Mediterranean is rich in wildlife, including a wealth of wonders to be found under the ...

For large-scale agroecosystems, patterns of pest population increases (graded increases or abrupt outbreaks) and declines (graded suppression or ab...

Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are biocontrol agents that are used to control a wide variety of insect pests within agriculture and forestry. In...

With more than 10,000 known species, recent reptiles (excluding birds) are the most specious tetrapod class. Their diversity is high, and many of t...

Studying invertebrates is a comprehensive guide to designing and carrying out ecological investigations, especially those involving sampling invert...

Biological control is an important component of integrated and ecological pest management programmes. Its importance continues to increase as plant...

This book consists of a series of papers that help to unravel the taxonomy of the phylum Brachiopoda and describe associated marine communities in ...

In diesem Buch erläutern Wissenschaftler mit jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung in der angewandten Forschung über Stechmücken auf verständliche Weise deren...

Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much abo...

This book contains full descriptions of all the ring nematodes (484 species) reported from everywhere in the world that belong to the family Cricon...

Nel 1925, Economo e Koskinas pubblicarono latlante più accurato e completo sulla citoarchitettonica della corteccia cerebrale umana mai realizzato....

Bryozoa are among the most abundant yet least understood of phyla in the fossil record. These exclusively colonial animals can be traced back to th...

Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve th...

A practical guide to the management of habitat for invertebrates. Many invertebrates are highly specialised creatures with very precise habitat re...

Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigat...

This book is the first of two books about sea urchins (echinoids) since 1953 (Th. Mortensen). The detailed and coloured illustrated descriptions en...

Ants are found everywhere from garden to mountaintop. They are at their most diverse in the tropics, but that does not make the 61 species of our p...

Throughout Asia, Australia and the Pacific, and increasingly in Africa, the primary horticultural insect pests are fruit flies belonging to the gen...