Essays On Ecology and Biogeography

Robert T. Dillon

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FWGNA Project
20 August 2019

Zoology: Invertebrates

Series: The Freshwater Gastropods of North America

Freshwater snails are common and familiar inhabitants of rivers, lakes, and streams throughout North America. In some environments they comprise the majority of the macroinvertebrate biomass, significantly influencing community composition, energy flow, and nutrient cycling. Yet their biology remains almost as obscure to the scientific community as to the lay public.

Collected in this volume are 38 essays on the ecology and biogeography of North American freshwater gastropods. Patterns of distribution are reviewed and analyzed at regional scales, with particular emphasis on mechanisms of dispersal. New invasions are reported, their progress monitored, and their consequences examined. The subjects of rarity and endemism, first introduced in Volume III, are explored at greater depth in Volume IV as well.

The scholarly study of biogeography has, in recent years, become entangled with public policies regarding endangered species conservation and invasive species control.

Here we review several striking cases where natural resource agencies have been misled by conservation biologists biased by research funding. We suggest that the correct relationship between science and public policy is analogous to playing baseball and playing the banjo – neither compatible nor incompatible, neither better nor worse, just entirely different.

Volume I in this series analyzed the results of a scientific survey of the freshwater gastropod fauna of the Atlantic drainages from Georgia to the New York line. The essays collected here in Volume IV, together with those in Volume II (Pulmonates) and Volume III (Prosobranchs), will be essential companions to Volume I, as well as to additional volumes on the gastropod faunas of interior drainages forthcoming.

By: Robert T. Dillon
Imprint: FWGNA Project
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 139mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780960084333
ISBN 10: 0960084339
Series: The Freshwater Gastropods of North America
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 20 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Robert T. Dillon, Jr. is America's foremost authority on freshwater gastropods. From 1983 until retirement in 2016 he was professor of biology at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is the author of The Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and over 60 scientific papers on the genetics, evolution, and ecology of snails. A former president of the American Malacological Society, Dr. Dillon contributed the freshwater gastropod chapter to the popular 2006 AMS publication, The Mollusks: A Guide to their Study, Collection and Preservation. In 1998 he founded the Freshwater Gastropods of North America Project, a long-term, collaborative effort to inventory and monograph the entire gastropod fauna inhabiting every river, lake and stream throughout the continent north of Mexico.

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Essays On Ecology and Biogeography

Robert T. Dillon

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