TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burggren,Warren W.
AU  - McMahon,Brian R.
TI  - Biology of the land crabs
SN  - 9780511753428 (ebook)
AV  - QL444.M33 B564 1988
U1  - 595.3/842 19
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Grapsidae
KW  - Gecarcinidae
KW  - Coenobitidae
KW  - Crabs
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753428
ER  -