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Title Biology of the land crabs / edited by Warren W. Burggren, Brian R. McMahon
Edition First edition
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description xii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Biology of the land crabs: an introduction Warren W. Burggren and Brian R. McMaHon; 2. Evolution, systematics and geographical distribution Richard G. Hartnoll; 3. Ecology Thomas G. Wolcott; 4. Behaviour David W. Dunham and Sandra L. Gilchrist; 5. Reproduction and development Rita G. Adiyodi; 6. Growth and molting Richard G. Hartnoll; 7. Ion and waterbalance Peter Greenaway; 8. Respiration Brian R. McMahon and Warren W. Burggren; 9. Circulation Warren W. Burggren and Brian R. McMahon; 10. Energetics and locomotion Clyde F. Herreid II and Robert J. Full; 11. Epilogue Brian R. McMahon and Warren W. Burggren
Summary 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
Analysis Land crabs
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 391-446
Notes Online version of the print title
Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Subject Coenobitidae.
Crabs.
Gecarcinidae.
Grapsidae.
Coenobitidae.
Crabs.
Gecarcinidae.
Grapsidae.
Ocypodidae.
Crabs -- growth & development
Crabs
Ecology.
Evolution
Author Burggren, Warren W., editor
McMahon, Brian R. (Brian Robert), 1936- editor
LC no. 87020734
ISBN 0521306906