Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America
(Sprache: Englisch)
Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine. This is often forgotten, especially in tropical countries like Costa Rica, renowned for their rain forests and the multitude of life forms found therein. Thus this...
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Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine. This is often forgotten, especially in tropical countries like Costa Rica, renowned for their rain forests and the multitude of life forms found therein. Thus this book focusing on marine diversity of Costa Rica is particularly welcome. How many marine species are there in Costa Rica? The authors report a total of 6,777 species, or 3. 5% of the world's total. Yet the vast majority of marine species have yet to be formally described. Recent estimates of the numbers of species on coral reefs range from 1-9 million, so that the true number of marine species in Costa Rica is certainly far higher. In some groups the numbers are likely to be vastly higher because to date they have been so little studied. Only one species of nematode is reported, despite the fact that it has been said that nematodes are the most diverse of all marine groups. In better studied groups such as mollusks and crustaceans, reported numbers are in the thousands, but even in these groups many species remain to be described. Indeed the task of describing marine species is daunting - if there really are about 9 million marine species and Costa Rica has 3. 5% of them, then the total number would be over 300,000. Clearly, so much remains to be done that new approaches are needed. Genetic methods have en- mous promise in this regard.
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PART I The Marine Realm of Costa Rica - Diversity of Marine Habitats Jorge Cortés & Ingo S. WehrtmannPART II A history of marine biodiversity scientific research in Costa Rica Jorge CortésPART III Marine Fossils Teresita AguilarPART IV Taxonomic groupsChapter 1. Phytoplankton - Roxana Víquez & Paul E. HargravesChapter 2 Marine benthic algae - Andrea BerneckerChapter 3. Seagrasses -Jorge Cortés & Eva SalasChapter 4 Mangroves - Ana Margarita Silva-BenavidesChapter 5 Foraminifera - Jorge Cortés, Claudia Mora-Baumgartner & Vanessa NielsenChapter 6 Sponges - Jorge Cortés, Noam van der Hal, R.W.M. van SoestChapter 7 Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa (Medusozoa) - Karina Rodríguez & Lourdes Segura-PuertasChapter 8 Siphonophores - Karina Rodríguez & Rebeca GascaChapter 9. Zoanthids, sea anemones and corallimorpharians - Jorge CortésChapter 10 Octocorals - Odalisca BreedyChapter 11 Stony corals - Jorge CortésChapter 12 Sipunculans - José A. Vargas & Harlan K. DeanChapter 13 Polychaetes and echiurans - Harlan K. DeanChapter 14 Stomatopods - Rita VargasChapter 15 Euphausids - Iván Castellanos, Eduardo Suárez-Morales & Álvaro Morales-RamírezChapter 16 Decapod crustaceans- Rita Vargas & Ingo S. WehrtmannChapter 17 Shallow water mysids - W. Wayne Price, Richard W. Heard and Rita VargasChapter 18 Cumaceans - Iorgu Petrescu, Richard W. Heard, Rita Vargas & Odalisca Breedy Chapter 19 Tanaidaceans - Richard W. Heard, Odalisca Breedy & Rita VargasChapter 20 Isopods - Richard Brusca & Ingo S. WehrtmannChapter 21 Gammaridean amphipods - John M. Foster, Sara E. LeCroy, Richard W. Heard and Rita VargasChapter 22 Hyperiid amphipods - Rebeca GascaChapter 23 Barnacles - Robert von SyocChapter 24 Copepods - Álvaro Morales-Ramírez & Eduardo Suárez-MoralesChapter 25 Sea-spiders - Roger N.BamberChapter 26 Marine insects - Monika SpringerChapter 27 Chitons - Enrico Schwabe & Ingo S. WehrtmannChapter 28 Benthic, shelled gastropods - Leonora Rodríguez, Rita Vargas & Jorge CortésChapter 29 Pelagic
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gastropods - Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Rebeca Gasca & Iván CastellanosChapter 30 Benthic opisthobranchs - Yolanda E. Camacho-GarcíaChapter 31 Bivalves - Julio Magaña-Cubillo & José EspinosaChapter 32 Squids and octopuses - F.G. Hochberg & Yolanda E. Camacho-García Chapter 33 Phoronids - Christian C. EmigChapter 34 Bryozoans - Jorge Cortés, Vanessa Nielsen & Amalia Herrera-CubillaChapter 35 Brachiopods - Christian C. EmigChapter 36 Echinoderms - Juan José Alvarado & Jorge CortésChapter 37 Chaetognaths or arrow worms - Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Rosa Ma. Hernández-Flores & Álvaro Morales-RamírezChapter 38 Appendicularians (Urochordata) - Iván Castellanos, Álvaro Morales-Ramírez & Eduardo Suárez-MoralesChapter 39 Marine fish - William A. Bussing & Myrna LópezChapter 40 Marine reptiles and amphibians - Mahmood Sasa, Gerardo A. Chaves & Lisa D. PatrickChapter 41 Birds in coastal and marine environments - Gilbert Barrantes & Johel Chaves-CamposChapter 42 Marine mammals - Laura May-ColladoChapter 43 Other taxonomic groups Fungi, kinorhynchs, invertebrate chordates - Jorge CortésChapter 44 Marine fish parasites - Jorge CortésChapter 45 Sea turtle parasites - Mario Santero & Simonetta MattiucciPART V. Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica: Perspectives and Conclusions - Ingo S. Wehrtmann, Jorge Cortés & Silvia Echeverría
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Autoren-Porträt
Ingo Wehrtmann: more than 50 published articles, researcher and lecture at the Universidad de Costa Rica, has worked in scientific institutions in Germany, Colombia, Chile, USA, Philippines and Costa Rica, more than 20 years of experience in international scientific collaboration, principal research area: decapod crustaceans in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitatsJorge Cortés: Premio Nacional de Ciencias, Costa Rica, 1982, more than 100 published paperseditor of the book "Latin American Coral Reefs", 2003, researcher and lecturer at Universidad de Costa Ricamore than 25 years of experience in coral reef research
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2008, 2009, 538 Seiten, 118 Abbildungen, Masse: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Wehrtmann, Ingo S.; Cortés, Jorge
- Herausgegeben: Jorge Cortés, Ingo S. Wehrtmann
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 1402082770
- ISBN-13: 9781402082771
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.12.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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From the reviews:"This book ... provide a good summary of the marine organisms of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Costa Rica. ... a useful resource for anyone interested in the marine life of Central America, and does a good job of highlighting the areas where research efforts should be concentrated. Summing Up: Recommended. All professional and academic libraries, lower-division undergraduates and above." (G. C. Jensen, Choice, Vol. 46 (11), July, 2009)
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