Invertebrate Biology: A Functional Approach

by Peter P. Calow

Courses on the invertebrates have two principal aims: (1) to introduce students to the diversity of animal life and (2) to make them aware that organisms are marvellously integrated systems with evolutionary pasts and ecological presents. This text is concerned exclusively with the second aim and assumes that the reader will already know something about the diversity and classification of invertebrates. Concepts of whole-organism function, metabolism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475703333
• ISBN13: 9781475703337
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"