Biology of the Land CrabsWarren W. Burggren, Brian R. McMahon Interest in land crabs has burgeoned as biologists have increasingly focused on the evolution of terrestriality. Before the publication of this volume in 1988, there had been no single comprehensive source of information to serve biologists interested in the diverse aspects of terrestrial decapod crustacean. Biology of the Land Crabs was the first synthesis of recent and long-established findings on brachyuran and anomuran crustaceans that have evolved varying degrees of adaptation for life on land. Chapters by leading researchers take a coordinated evolutionary and comparative approach to systematics and evolution, ecology, behaviour, reproduction, growth and molting, ion and water balance, respiration and circulation, and energetics and locomotion. Each discusses how terrestrial species have become adapted from ancestral freshwater or marine forms. With its extensive bibliography and comprehensive index, including the natural history of nearly eighty species of brachyuran and anomuran crabs, Biology of the Land Crabs will continue to be an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students. |
Contents
EVOLUTION SYSTEMATICS | 7 |
Adiyodi Rita G Vatsyayana Center of Invertebrate Reproduction Depart | 19 |
Phylogeny and evolution of land | 47 |
ECOLOGY | 55 |
Interactions with the biotic environment | 65 |
Competition for food and habitat | 75 |
Growth and longevity | 88 |
Effects of land crabs on environment | 94 |
Ecological physiology of land crabs and the evolution of air breathing | 283 |
CIRCULATION | 298 |
Cardiovascular morphology | 299 |
Cardiovascular physiology | 313 |
a circulatory problem with terrestrial life | 328 |
Conclusions | 330 |
ENERGETICS AND LOCOMOTION | 333 |
Introduction | 334 |
BEHAVIOR | 97 |
REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT | 139 |
GROWTH AND MOLTING | 186 |
Patterns of growth | 197 |
Autotomy and regeneration | 206 |
Structure of gas exchange organs | 250 |
Ventilatory mechanisms | 257 |
Gas exchange and metabolic rate | 263 |
Ventilatory control mechanisms | 265 |
Oxygen transport by hemolymph | 266 |
Carbon dioxide transport by hemolymph | 274 |
Hemolymph acidbase balance | 275 |
Respiratory compensation for environmental change | 278 |
Digestive system | 337 |
Metabolism | 345 |
Animal energetics | 353 |
Locomotion | 357 |
Energy budgets | 375 |
Conclusion | 376 |
EPILOGUE | 378 |
Natural histories of selected terrestrial crabs | 382 |
References | 391 |
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Biology of the Land Crabs Warren W. Burggren,Professor of Biology Warren W Burggren,Brian R. McMahon No preview available - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
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