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The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests Geoff Williams (author)

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1 online resource
Type:
Electronic resources
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Place:
Australia
Date:
2020
Notes:
ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Australia's subtropical rainforests -- the plant context -- Colour plates -- 3 The invertebrates -- the 'other 99 per cent' of subtropical rainforest biodiversity -- The role of invertebrates in subtropical rainforest ecosystems -- Pollination in Australia's subtropical rainforests and the pollinator function of insects -- 4 Invertebrate taxa of Australian subtropical rainforests -- PLATYHELMINTHES (flatworms, land planarians) -- Temnocephalida -- Tricladida -- NEMERTEA (ribbon worms) -- NEMATODA (round worms)
ANNELIDA (earthworms, leeches) -- Oligochaeta (earthworms) -- Hirudinea (leeches) -- CHELICERATA (spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites, ticks, pseudoscorpions, whip spiders) -- ARACHNIDA (spiders) -- Araneomorphae ('true' spiders) -- Mygalomorphae (trap-door and funnel-web spiders) -- SCHIZOMIDA (whip spiders) -- SCORPIONIDA (scorpions) -- PSEUDOSCORPIONIDA (pseudoscorpions) -- OPILIONES (harvestmen) -- ACARINA (mites, ticks) -- CRUSTACEA (amphipods, isopods,syncarids, crayfish, shrimp andrelated groups) -- PERACARIDA (amphipods, isopods) -- SYNCARIDA
DECAPODA (crayfish, shrimp, freshwater prawns) -- UNIRAMIA (peripatus, centipedes, millipedes, springtails, insects and related groups) -- ONYCHOPHORA (peripatus, velvet worms) -- CHILOPODA (centipedes) -- DIPLOPODA (millipedes) -- COLLEMBOLA (springtails) -- PROTURA -- DIPLURA (two-pronged bristletails) -- INSECTA ('true' insects) -- ARCHAEOGNATHA (bristletails) -- EPHEMEROPTERA (mayflies) -- ODONATA (dragonflies, damselflies) -- Zygoptera (damselflies) -- Anisoptera ('true' dragonflies) -- PLECOPTERA (stoneflies) -- BLATTODEA (cockroaches, termites) -- Blattaria (cockroaches)
Isoptera (termites) -- MANTODEA (praying mantids, mantises) -- DERMAPTERA (earwigs) -- ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers, katydids, crickets) -- PHASMATODEA (stick insects) -- EMBIOPTERA (web-spinners, embiids) -- PSOCOPTERA (psocids, book lice) -- PHTHIRAPTERA (lice) -- HEMIPTERA (true bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, mealybugs, lerps) -- THYSANOPTERA (thrips) -- MEGALOPTERA (alder flies) -- NEUROPTERA (lacewings, ant-lions) -- COLEOPTERA (beetles) -- MECOPTERA (scorpion flies) -- SIPHONAPTERA (fleas) -- DIPTERA (flies, midges, mosquitoes) -- TRICHOPTERA (caddis flies) -- LEPIDOPTERA (moths and butterflies)
Glossata (Hesperoidea and Papilionoidea) (butterflies) -- Glossata (part -- remaining superfamilies), Aglossata and Zeugloptera (moths) -- HYMENOPTERA (wasps, bees, ants, sawflies) -- Symphyta (sawflies) -- Apocrita (Aculeata -- Apiformes) (bees) -- Apocrita (Aculeata and Parasitica) (wasps) -- Apocrita (ants) -- MOLLUSCA (land and freshwater snails, slugs) -- Terrestrial fauna -- Freshwater fauna -- Appendix 1. Additional ecosystem values -- the stygofauna -- Appendix 2. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Area
Summary:
Examines invertebrates within the context of the subtropical rainforests they are dependent on
Topic:
Invertebrates  Search this
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Call number:
QL365.54 .W555 2020 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
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Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_1153085