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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164982303321

Titolo

Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sven Klimpel, Thomas Kuhn, Heinz Mehlhorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-46343-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 226 p. 55 illus., 35 illus. in color.)

Collana

Parasitology Research Monographs, , 2192-3671 ; ; 9

Disciplina

591.7857

Soggetti

Parasitology

Animal ecology

Climate change

Animal systematics

Animal taxonomy

Biodiversity

Invertebrates

Animal Ecology

Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction (Mehlhorn, Klimpel) -- Antarctic biodiversity of aquatic parasites (Marcogliese) -- Antarctic Digenea (Bray) -- Antarctic Monogenea (Kritsky, Boeger) -- Antactic Cestoda and Nematoda (Rocka, Laskowski) -- Antarctic anisakid Nematoda (Klimpel, Kuhn, Münster) -- Antarctic Acanthocephala (Zdzitowiecki, Laskowski) -- Antarctic parasitic Crustacea (Ho or Williams) -- Antarctic lice of seals (Mehlhorn) -- Antarctic leeches (Bielecki, Rokicka) -- Parasite communities of Penguins (Diaz, Barbosa) -- Parasite communities of mammals (McFarlane or Mattiucci, Nascetti) -- Parasite communities of fish (Mattiucci, Nascetti or George-Nascimento) -- History of Antarctic parasitological research (MacKenzie, Hemmingsen).



Sommario/riassunto

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwide pollution. Both factors may influence the finely balanced interrelationships between parasites and endangered hosts especially in specialized regions such as Antarctica. Before this background the present book offers a broad spectrum of important parasite-host interrelations in times of ecosystem changes written by experienced and renown international specialists.