Animals under logs and stones

Everything about Insects General

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Accessibly covers cryptosphere ecology and environment
Easy-to-use, comprehensively illustrated keys
Offers guidelines for study and ideas for further research... Show more

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Product description

Series	Naturalists' Handbooks
Authors	C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read & Charlotte E. Wheater
Language	English
ISBN	9781784274177
Publisher	Pelagic Publishing
Pages	352
Size	210 x 148 mm
Format	Paperback
Images	Line drawings, colour images and illlustrations
Year published	2023

Logs, stones and the like provide an interesting interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface, offering refuges for a fascinating array of animals. The communities of organisms that live beneath them are little noticed and even less studied, yet the potential for ecological work here is great. Some of the animals are relatively large and frequently not difficult to find. They exhibit a wide range of lifestyles – from slow slugs or snails to very fast centipedes, from generalist to specialist feeders and from herbivores to carnivores.

With chapters covering the cryptosphere environment, species groups, identification, guidelines and ideas for further research, this much-expanded and updated new edition also includes extensive, easy-to-use, comprehensively illustrated keys. Ground-surface debris can be found almost anywhere, often presenting highly accessible microhabitats for study and bringing immediate rewards to the curious: here is the ideal tool to unlock these worlds.

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