@article{753750,
      recid = {753750},
      author = {Batzer, Darold P., and Boix, Dani,},
      title = {Invertebrates in freshwater wetlands an international  perspective on their ecology / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Wetlands are among the world's most valuable and most  threatened habitats, and in these crucially important  ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position.  Most of the biological diversity in wetlands is found  within resident invertebrate assemblages, and those  invertebrates are the primary trophic link between lower  plants and higher vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, fish, and  birds). As such, most scientists, managers, consultants,  and students who work in the world's wetlands should become  better informed about the invertebrate components in their  habitats of interest. Our book serves to fill this need by  assembling the world's most prominent ecologists working on  freshwater wetland invertebrates, and having them provide  authoritative perspectives on each the world's most  important freshwater wetland types. The initial chapter of  the book provides a primer on freshwater wetland  invertebrates, including how they are uniquely adapted for  life in wetland environments and how they contribute to  important ecological functions in wetland ecosystems. The  next 15 chapters deal with invertebrates in the major  wetlands across the globe (rock pools, alpine ponds,  temperate temporary ponds, Mediterranean temporary ponds,  turloughs, peatlands, permanent marshes, Great Lakes  marshes, Everglades, springs, beaver ponds, temperate  floodplains, neotropical floodplains, created wetlands,  waterfowl marshes), each chapter written by groups of  prominent scientists intimately knowledgeable about the  individual wetland types. Each chapter reviews the relevant  literature, provides a synthesis of the most important  ecological controls on the resident invertebrate fauna, and  highlights important conservation concerns. The final  chapter synthesizes the 15 habitat-based chapters,  providing a macroscopic perspective on natural variation of  invertebrate assemblage structure across the world's  wetlands and a paradigm for understanding how global  variation and environmental factors shape wetland  invertebrate communities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/753750},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24978-0},
}