| Reviews |
| - '"A superb book - and who knows, it might enable me to identify just a few more of those things in that net!"' - Highland News Weekend
- '"...well illustrated and comprehensive, excellent value for money."' - BIRDS Magazine
- '"...a delight for any fan of insects, worms, leeches and the like...well-illustrated, comprehensive, and excellent value for money."' - Birds
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| Description | |
This delightful book is one of the first three volumes of Oxford University Press's new Pocket Guide
European natural history series. The series fills the need for lighter weight guides for those who want to find out about the common organisms they come across during countryside excursions without having the specialist knowledge required to make detailed species identifications. All the
books in the series are attractively designed and generously illustrated with plentiful high quality colour line drawings and photographs throughout. The accompanying text is short but informative, with notes on general biology as well as on identification. Small Freshwater Creatures
covers the more common 'creepy-crawlies', fish, and amphibians likely to be encountered by pond- and
stream-dippers. They are arranged by animal group and also by the place they might be found, whether in on floating leaves or in the depths, in polluted or clean water. Sections on the animals' ecology, a glossary, and on further reading will allow the book to be used as a springboard for further study.
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Readership: Families and anyone who has access to a stream or pond; schoolchildren and their teachers.
| Contents |
Moths, Caddis flies; Alder flies; Lacewings; Dragonflies; Mayflies; Stoneflies; Wasps; Flies; Midges and Mosquitoes;
Aphids; Cicadas; Grasshoppers; Water bugs; Beetles; Springtails; Water mites; Spiders; Crustaceans;
Daphnia; Water fleas; Ostracods; Bivalves; Snails; Flukes; Turbellaria; Leeches; Bristleworms; Coelenterates;
Amoebae and sun animalcules; Ciliates; Rotifers; Moss animals; Freshwater sponges; Fish; Frogs; Toads;
Salamanders; Snakes; Creatures on floating leaves; Creatures on the surface film; Creatures in puddles; Algae;
Food chain of a lake; Swarms; Creatures on stones in watercourses; Polluted watercourses; Glossary;
Supplementary reading; Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Lars-Henrik Olsen,
Jakob Sunesen, and
Bente Vita Pedersen
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