Ebook: Aquatic Oligochaete Biology

After some conversations with Professor Dr. H. Caspers and other participants at the triennial congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (S. I. L. ) held in Copenhagen, Denmark (1977), the senior editor approached the international delegates at the business meeting for approval of the concept of holding the First International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaete Biology at Sidney (near Victoria) British Columbia on May 1-4, 1979. The S. I. L. agreed to sponsor such a meeting, and this sponsorship in turn led to the provision of space and technical facilities at the Institute of Ocean Sciences Patricia Bay, the Pacific Regional headquarters of the Ocean and Aquatic Sciences component of the federal Fisheri~s and Oceans Department. The National Research Council of Canada provided travel support for a number of non-Canadian participants. Invitations were sent to as many active workers in the field as the senior editor could name, and in addition two representatives of closely allied fields were invited - Dr. V. Standen who works with closely related but terrestrial species, and Dr. J. Grassle who works with polychaetes but especially with Capitella capitata which is much like an oligochaete in some aspects of its biolog- so much so that the senior editor in his salad days succumbed to some ill-founded advice and described Capitella as a new marine tubificid! The addition of these "outside" influences prevented the group from making a number of unfounded assumptions during discussions, and provided valuable cross-linkages.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Specific and Generic Criteria in Freshwater Oligochaeta, with Special Emphasis on Naididae....Pages 1-8
Specific and Generic Criteria in Marine Oligochaeta, with Special Emphasis on Tubificidae....Pages 9-24
Polychaete Sibling Species....Pages 25-32
Ecophenotypic Variation in Setae of Naididae (Oligochaeta)....Pages 33-39
Distribution of Aquatic Oligochaetes....Pages 41-53
The Aquatic Oligochaeta of Argentina: Current Status of Knowledge....Pages 55-77
The Aquatic Oligochaeta of the St. Lawrence Great Lakes Region....Pages 79-113
Aquatic Oligochaeta of Southern England....Pages 115-164
Life Cycles of Mass Species of Tubificidae (Oligochaeta)....Pages 165-174
Population Dynamics of Tubifex tubifex, Studied by Means of a New Model....Pages 175-184
The Production Biology of the Tubificidae (Oligochaeta)....Pages 185-203
The Production Biology of Terrestrial Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta)....Pages 205-209
Ecological Studies of Aquatic Oligochaetes in the USSR....Pages 211-223
Aquatic Oligochaeta of the Rhone-Alpes Area: Current Research Priorities....Pages 225-240
Effects of Tubificid Oligochaetes on Physical and Chemical Properties of Lake Erie Sediments....Pages 241-251
Ecology of Tidal Freshwater and Estuarine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta)....Pages 253-317
The Ecology of Tubificids in the Thames Estuary with Particular Reference to Tubifex costatus (Claparede)....Pages 319-330
Seasonal Movements of Subtidal Benthic Communities in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 331-381
Tolerance and Preference Reactions of Marine Oligochaeta in Relation to Their Distribution....Pages 383-384
Oligochaeta Community Structure and Function in Agricultural Landscapes....Pages 385-409
Oligochaete Communities in Pollution Biology: The European: Situation with Special Reference to Lakes in Scandinavia....Pages 411-431
Structure of Tubificid and Lumbriculid Worm Communities, and Three Indices of Trophy Based upon These Communities, as Descriptors of Eutrophication Level of Lake Geneva (Switzerland)....Pages 433-455
Pollution Biology — The North American Experience....Pages 457-470
Heavy Metal Studies with Oligochaetes....Pages 471-475
The Relationship of Saprobial Conditions to Massive Populations of Tubificids....Pages 477-502
Postscript....Pages 503-505
Back Matter....Pages 507-514
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