Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674023439 ISBN 13: 9780674023437

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a much-needed synthesis of what is currently known about these relatives of spiders, focusing on basic conceptual issues in systematics and evolutionary ecology, making comparisons with other well-studied arachnid groups, such as spiders and scorpions.

Broad in scope, the volume is aimed at raising relevant questions from a diversity of fields, indicating areas in which additional research is needed. The authors focus on both the unique attributes of harvestmen biology, as well as on biological studies conducted with harvestmen species that contribute to the understanding of behavior and evolutionary biology in general. By providing a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group, the book should give field biologists worldwide the means to identify specimens and provide an invaluable reference for understanding harvestmen diversity and biology.

About this title

About the Authors

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha is Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Glauco Machado is an associate researcher at the University of Sau Paulo, Brazil.

Gonzalo Giribet is Associate Professor of Biology, Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674023439
• ISBN 13: 9780674023437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Pinto-da-Rocha Ricardo, Machado Glauco, Giribet Gonzalo