Sea Stars and Other Echinoderms
Author: Theresa Svancara
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780716614586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions and answers explore the world of animals.
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Australian Echinoderms
Author: Timothy O'Hara
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2017-06
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1486307639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEchinoderms, including feather stars, seastars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea urchins and sea cucumbers form the basis of important fisheries. Over 1000 species live in Australian waters, from the shoreline to the depths of the abyssal plain and the tropics to Antarctic waters. Australian Echinoderms is an authoritative account of Australia’s 110 families of echinoderms. It brings together in a single volume comprehensive information on the identification, biology, evolution, ecology and management of these animals for the first time. Richly illustrated with beautiful photographs and written in an accessible style, Australian Echinoderms suits the needs of marine enthusiasts, academics and fisheries managers both in Australia and other geographical areas where echinoderms are studied.
Echinoderm Aquaculture
Author: Nicholas Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-09-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0470960388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSea urchins and sea cucumbers are highly sought after delicacies growing in popularity globally. The demand for these species is rapidly outpacing natural stocks, and researchers and seafood industry personnel are now looking towards aquaculture as a means of providing a sustainable supply of these organism. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference on the basic biology and current culture practices for a wide range of geographically diverse echinoderm species. Echinoderm Aquaculture begins by examining the basic ecology and biology of sea urchins and sea cucumbers as well as the breadth of uses of these organisms as a source of food and bioactive compound. Subsequent chapters delineate the specific species of interest invarious geographic regions from around the world. Together, chapters provide a comprehensive coverage of culture practices. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference for researchers and industry personnel, and will serve as an invaluable resource to this rapidly growing segment of the aquaculture industry.
Physiology of Echinoderms
Author: John Binyon
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 148315727X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysiology of Echinoderms is an 11-chapter book that begins by elucidating the feeding, digestion, and excretion of specific echinoderms. The critical role of amoebocytes in the excretion process involved in these organisms is also explained. This book also describes several aspects of importance to these organisms, including salinity tolerance, osmoregulation, ionic regulation, chemical composition, neural control of locomotion, biochemical affinities, toxins, and immunology. The organisms' physiology in sensory, water vascular system, respiratory system, spawning, neurosecretion, nerves, and muscles are also explained.
SEA STARS SEA URCHINS ALLIES
Author: HENDLE GORDON
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 1995-08-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560984504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEchinoderms, the star fish skeletons that beachcombers collect, are brilliantly colored and intricately ornamented creatures in their natural habitat. This reference features over 130 color photographs of five classes of echinoderms (sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, feather stars, and sea cucu
Echinoderms
Author: Eric Whitmore
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781633211919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEchinoderms play an important ecological role in marine communities, especially in relation to food chains, occupying diverse trophic levels such as herbivores, carnivores, detritivores and omnivores in the marine environment. These animals feed on many different kinds of food but the majority eat only small particles of edible matter suspended in the water or lying as detritus on the sea bottom. Although echinoderms occur at all depths from the intertidal to the abyssal zones and are present throughout all of the world's oceans, their distribution is limited by the composition and topography of the sea-bed, by temperature and pressure differences according to locality and depth, and by salinity and food supply. This book discusses echinoderms and their habitual environments as well as their reproductive biology and the ecology in which they form their habitats.
Echinoderm Paleobiology
Author: William I. Ausich
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-07-18
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0253351286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms and is organized into five parts: echinoderm paleoecology, functional morphology, and paleoecology; evolutionary paleoecology; morphology for refined phylogenetic studies; innovative applications of data encoded in echinoderms; and information on new crinoid data sets.
Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America
Author: Juan José Alvarado
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 3642200516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book compiles for the first time the development of echinoderm research in Latin America. The book contains 17 chapters, one introductory, 15 country chapters, and a final biogeographic analysis. It compiles all the investigations published in international and local journals, reports, theses and other gray literature. Each chapter is composed of 7 sections: introduction describes the marine environments, and main oceanographic characteristics, followed by a history of research account divided by specific subjects. The next section addresses patterns of distribution and diversity. A specific section would explain fishery or aquaculture activities. The next sections deal with environmental and anthropogenic threats that are affecting echinoderm, and any conservation or management action. Finally, a section with conclusions, needs and new lines of research. The book will include two appendixes with species lists of all echinoderms with bathimetric data, habitat and distribution.
Echinoderms
Author: Eve C. Southward
Publisher: Field Studies Council
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides descriptions and keys for the identification of 3 species of feather stars, 21 species of starfish, 20 species of brittlestars, 17 species of sea urchins, and 33 species of sea cucumbers.
Echinoderms Through Time
Author: Bruno David
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 965
ISBN-13: 1000123677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEchinoderms are now considered as a biological and geological model that underlies researches of primary importance. The extent of the contributions made by the International Echinoderm Conferences to various fields of research is attested by the scope covered by presentation at the international conferences. These proceedings contain the complete papers or abstracts of all the presentations and posters presented at the eighth International Echinoderm Conference, held in Dijon, France in September, 1994. Coverage includes: general; extinct classes; crinoids; asteroids; ophiuroids; holothuroids; and echinoids.
