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Fishery products --- Bivalves --- Acephala --- Aglossa --- Anodontoda --- Bivalvia --- Conchifera --- Conchophora --- Cormopoda --- Dithra --- Elatobranchiata --- Elatocephala --- Eulamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchiata --- Lipocephala --- Pelecypoda --- Teleodesmacea --- Tropipoda --- Mollusks --- Aquatic resources --- Inspection --- E-books

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Bivalves --- Bivalve culture --- Bivalve culture. --- Bivalves. --- Zoology and Animal Sciences. Biology of Animal Taxonomic Groups --- Mollusca --- Mollusca. --- Acephala --- Aglossa --- Anodontoda --- Bivalvia --- Conchifera --- Conchophora --- Cormopoda --- Dithra --- Elatobranchiata --- Elatocephala --- Eulamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchiata --- Lipocephala --- Pelecypoda --- Teleodesmacea --- Tropipoda --- Mollusks --- Mollusk culture

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the ecology of freshwater bivalves and gastropods worldwide. It deals with the ecology of these species in its broadest sense, including diet, habitat and reproductive biology, emphasising in particular the tremendous diversity of these freshwater invertebrates. Following on from these introductory themes, the author develops a life history model that unifies them, and serves as a basis for reviews of their population and community ecology, including treatments of competition, predation, parasitism and biogeography. Extensively referenced and providing a synthesis of work from the nineteenth century onwards, this book includes original analyses that seek to unify previous work into a coherent whole. It will appeal primarily to professional ecologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as to parasitologists.

Gastropoda --- Bivalves --- Freshwater invertebrates --- Aquatic invertebrates --- Freshwater animals --- Acephala --- Aglossa --- Anodontoda --- Bivalvia --- Conchifera --- Conchophora --- Cormopoda --- Dithra --- Elatobranchiata --- Elatocephala --- Eulamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchiata --- Lipocephala --- Pelecypoda --- Teleodesmacea --- Tropipoda --- Mollusks --- Gasteropoda --- Gastropods --- Ecology. --- Ecology

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Exploring the potential use of bivalves as indicators and monitors of ecosystem health, this book describes live and computer simulated experiments, mesocosm studies, and field manipulation experiments. This second edition discusses major new developments, including phase shifts in many coastal and estuarine ecosystems dominated by suspension-feeding bivalves, the invasion or introduction of alien bivalve species, the rapid growth of environmental restoration focused on bivalves, and the examination of geological history with regard to global climate change and its impact on bivalve-dominated systems.

Bivalves --- Marine invertebrates --- Biotic communities. --- Ecology. --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Aquatic invertebrates --- Marine animals --- Acephala --- Aglossa --- Anodontoda --- Bivalvia --- Conchifera --- Conchophora --- Cormopoda --- Dithra --- Elatobranchiata --- Elatocephala --- Eulamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchiata --- Lipocephala --- Pelecypoda --- Teleodesmacea --- Tropipoda --- Mollusks

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Animals are a major link between the water column (pelagic) and the bottom (benthic) habitats in most shallow systems. This coupling is dominated by active processes such as suspension-feeding in which the organism actively uses energy to pump water that is then filtered to remove suspended particles that are consumed while undigested remains are deposited on the bottom. As a result of this feeding on and metabolism of particles, the animals excrete dissolved inorganic and organic waste back into the water column, and thus, become major components in the cycling and feedback of essential elements. With relatively high weight specific filtration rates of 1— 10 liters/hour/gram dry tissue and a propensity to form large aggregated populations (beds, reefs, schools and swarms), these organisms can play an important role in regulating water column processes Although estuarine bivalve molluscs such as oysters and mussels dominate the suspension-feeder literature, other groups including plankton and nekton that are found in estuarine as well as other aquatic systems are also potentially important removers of suspended particles. Thus, a significant part of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop focused on suspension-feeders as controllers of plankton abundance, biomass and diversity, system metabolism, nutrient cycling and scale dependency. Systems dominated by suspension-feeders are typically impacted by human activities including recreation, aquaculture, human and industrial pollution, and bilge water from shipping. Suspension-feeders are often impacted by fisheries and over-exploitation. These impacts commonly result in changes in ecosystem structure either through the food chain concentration of harmful substances or diseases, the introduction of alien species of suspension-feeders, or the instability of suspension-feeders systems through species displacement or phase shifts in the dominance between different suspension-feeding components such as nekton or zooplankton. These issues were addressed near the close of the workshop along with conclusions and syntheses developed by the working groups.

Marine ecology --- Marine animals --- Ecologie marine --- Faune marine --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Suspension feeders. --- Suspension feeders --- Estuarine ecology --- Freshwater ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Animal Geography --- Ecology --- Bivalves --- Food --- Congrès --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVBIOLO SPRINGER-B --- Acephala --- Aglossa --- Anodontoda --- Bivalvia --- Conchifera --- Conchophora --- Cormopoda --- Dithra --- Elatobranchiata --- Elatocephala --- Eulamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchia --- Lamellibranchiata --- Lipocephala --- Pelecypoda --- Teleodesmacea --- Tropipoda --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Life sciences. --- Ecology. --- Biodiversity. --- Ecosystems. --- Life Sciences. --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Mollusks --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Ecology . --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities