Note: Front Cover -- Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates -- Ecology and General Biology: Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates - Volume I -- Copyright -- Dedications from the Editors -- Contents -- Contributors to Volume I -- Acknowledgments for Volume I -- About the Editors -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to Volume I -- Section 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Introduction to Invertebrates of Inland Waters -- INTRODUCTION -- SPECIES AND PHYLOGENIES -- USING SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY TO CLASSIFY ORGANISMS -- TAXONOMIC KEYS TO INVERTEBRATES OF INLAND WATERS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 - Overview of Inland Water Habitats -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBAL VARIATIONS IN AQUATIC HABITATS -- LOTIC ECOSYSTEMS: RIVERS, STREAMS, AND SPRINGBROOKS -- SUBTERRANEAN HABITATS -- LENTIC ECOSYSTEMS: LAKES, PONDS, WETLANDS, AND PHYTOTELMATA -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 - Collecting, Preserving, and Culturing Invertebrates -- COLLECTING AND SAMPLING -- RECORD-KEEPING -- PRESERVING AND FIXING SPECIMENS -- CULTURING INVERTEBRATES -- Section II - General Ecology and Human Impacts -- Chapter 4 - Functional Relationships of Freshwater Invertebrates -- INTRODUCTION -- DISTRIBUTION IN SPACE -- ACQUIRING ENERGY -- REGULATING POPULATIONS AND COMMUNITIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 - Ecology of Invasive Alien Invertebrates -- RATES AND GLOBAL EXTENT OF FRESHWATER INVERTEBRATE INVASIONS -- HUMAN VECTORS OF DISPERSAL -- TRAITS CONFERRING INVASION SUCCESS -- ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS -- CAN THE IMPACTS OF ALIEN INVERTEBRATES BE PREDICTED? -- MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 - Economic Aspects of Freshwater Invertebrates -- FRESHWATER INVERTEBRATES IN COMMERCE -- BIOMONITORING -- NUISANCE AQUATIC INSECTS -- BENEFITS OR DAMAGES CAUSED BY INTRODUCED OR INVASIVE SPECIES -- MEDICINAL LEECHES. , STRESSES TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE FROM BITING FLIES -- DISEASES VECTORED BY FRESHWATER INVERTEBRATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Section III - Protozoa to Tardigrada -- Chapter 7 - Free-Living Protozoa -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE PROTOZOAN CELL -- BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF FREE-LIVING PROTOZOA -- GENERAL ECOLOGY OF PROTOZOA -- COLLECTING AND CULTURING PROTOZOA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 - Phylum Porifera -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND PREPARATION FOR IDENTIFICATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 - Phylum Cnidaria -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 - Phylum Platyhelminthes -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 - Phylum Nemertea -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 - Phylum Gastrotricha -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PRESERVATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 - Phylum Rotifera -- INTRODUCTION TO ROTIFERA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND PREPARATION FOR IDENTIFICATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 - Phylum Nemata -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND PREPARING SPECIMENS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 - Phylum Nematomorpha -- INTRODUCTION TO NEMATOMORPHA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND PREPARING SPECIMENS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 - Phyla Ectoprocta and Entoprocta (Bryozoans). , INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY OF ECTOPROCTA -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF ECTOPROCTA -- ENTOPROCTA -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17 - Phylum Tardigrada -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTION, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Section IV - Phylum Mollusca -- Chapter 18 - Introduction to Mollusca and the Class Gastropoda -- INTRODUCTION TO FRESHWATER MEMBERS OF THE PHYLUM MOLLUSCA -- FRESHWATER MEMBERS OF THE CLASS GASTROPODA -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19 - CLASS BIVALVIA1 -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY -- COLLECTING, CURATION, AND REARING -- REFERENCES -- Section V - Phylum Annelida -- Chapter 20 - Introduction to Annelida and the Class Polychaeta -- INTRODUCTION TO INLAND WATER ANNELIDA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING ANNELIDS AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- INTRODUCTION TO THE INLAND WATER POLYCHAETA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY OF POLYCHAETA -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF POLYCHAETA -- COLLECTING POLYCHAETES AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 21 - Clitellata: Oligochaeta -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 22 - Clitellata: Branchiobdellida -- INTRODUCTION TO THE BRANCHIOBDELLIDA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 23 - Clitellata: Hirudinida and Acanthobdellida -- INTRODUCTION TO HIRUDINIDA AND ACANTHOBDELLIDA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND PREPARATION FOR IDENTIFICATION -- REFERENCES -- Section VI - Phylum Arthropoda -- Chapter 24 - Introduction to the Phylum Arthropoda. , GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND PREPARING SPECIMENS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 25 - Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida -- INTRODUCTION TO ARACHNIDS -- SPIDERS (ARANEAE) -- ACARI: PARASITIFORMES -- ACARIFORMES: FRESHWATER SARCOPTIFORMES -- ACARIFORMES: PROSTIGMATA: OVERVIEW AND FRESHWATER TAXA EXCLUDING HYDRACHNIDIAE -- WATER MITES (PROSTIGMATA: PARASITENGONINA: HYDRACHNIDIAE) -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND PREPARATION FOR STUDY -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 26 - Subphylum Myriapoda, Class Diplopoda -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBPHYLUM -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF FRESHWATER MILLIPEDES -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND PREPARATION FOR IDENTIFICATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 27 - Introduction to "Crustacea" -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 28 - Class Branchiopoda -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 29 - Class Maxillopoda -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY OF COPEPODA -- GENERAL ECOLOGY OF COPEPODA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF BRANCHIURA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF CIRRIPEDIA -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 30 - Class Ostracoda -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 31 - Class Malacostraca, Superorders Peracarida and Syncarida -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 32 - Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR. , COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 33 - Hexapoda-Introduction to Insects and Collembola -- INTRODUCTION TO HEXAPODA -- INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS INSECTA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY OF AQUATIC INSECTS -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF AQUATIC INSECTS -- INTRODUCTION TO COLLEMBOLA -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION OF INSECTS AND SPRINGTAILS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 34 - Order Ephemeroptera -- INTRODUCTION TO MAYFLIES (EPHEMEROPTERA) -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 35 - Order Odonata -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 36 - Order Plecoptera -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING AND REARING STONEFLIES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 37 - Order Hemiptera -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND PREPARING SPECIMENS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 38 - Order Trichoptera -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, REARING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 39 - Order Coleoptera -- INTRODUCTION TO AQUATIC COLEOPTERA -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, PRESERVATION, AND CULTURING -- APPENDIX 1: FAMILY DESCRIPTIONS BY SUBORDERS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 40 - Order Diptera -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL BIOLOGY -- GENERAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- COLLECTING, CULTURING, AND SPECIMEN PREPARATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 41 - Minor Insect Orders -- INTRODUCTION -- MEGALOPTERA -- NEUROPTERA -- BLATTODEA -- HYMENOPTERA -- LEPIDOPTERA -- MECOPTERA -- ORTHOPTERA -- REFERENCES -- Subject Index -- Taxonomy Index.