Ecological Strategies of Aquatic Insects - Paperback

by Charles W. Heckman (Author)

This book recounts the habits of interesting and unusual exceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life. It examines different ways that groups of species developed modes of existence in or on the surface of water, and gives reasons why the gross morphology of insects is not favorable for life in or near bodies of wa

Author Biography

Charles W. Heckman, retired, is affiliated with the Max-Planck Institute for Limnologie, Plon, Hamburg, Germany.