Author: G M Barker
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: pests, crop, molluscs
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $172.90
ISBN-10: 0851993206
ISBN-13: 9780851993201

Mollusc species currently constitute a major threat to sustainable agriculture. This threat is associated with cultivation of new crops, intensification of agricultural production systems and the spread through human trade and travel of species adapted to these modified environments. In some crops their significance is only now becoming apparent with the decline in the importance of other pest groups which can be effectively controlled. The book focuses on: toxicology of chemicals; deployment of molluscicides in baits; specific crop situations worldwide; current pest status of mollusc species

Author: G M Barker
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: molluscs, terrestrial, biology
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2001-03-09
List price: $214.70
ISBN-10: 0851993184
ISBN-13: 9780851993188

With an estimated 35,000 species, terrestrial molluscs are one of the most successful and diverse animal groups in land-based ecosystems. These animals have long been of importance to human societies as food, medicine, crop pests, vectors of parasites, and as tools, personal ornamentation and currency in trade. This book presents a synthesis of current knowledge and research on the biology of terrestrial molluscs.

Author: Gary M Barker
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: cabi, molluscs, terrestrial, enemies, natural
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $275.50
ISBN-10: 0851993192
ISBN-13: 9780851993195

This book provides the first coherent examination of the vast literature on the diversity of organisms that constitute the natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs. In a series of review chapters, it provides an authoritative synthesis of current research on predators, parasites and pathogens and how they might be used to control mollusc pests.

Author: Ronald Chase
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: molluscs, gastropod, control, neural, behavior
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-06
List price: $199.99
ISBN-10: 0195113144
ISBN-13: 9780195113143

During the past quarter century, there has been a tremendous expansion in our knowledge about gastropods, their behavior and their neurobiology. We can understand a great deal about mammaliam nervous systems by studying the relatively larger and simpler structure of the gastropod nervous system. Behavior and its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs first reviews the broader aspects of molluscan biology and draws attention to the special features of the gastropod nervous system. The book then examines different types of behavior, reviewing progress in understanding the mechanisms of neural cont

Author: Elizabeth Gosling
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: culture, ecology, biology, molluscs, bivalve
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 0852382340
ISBN-13: 9780852382349

Bivalve Molluscs is an extremely comprehensive book covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important class biologically and ecologically, many of the bivalves are fished and cultured commercially (e.g. mussels, oysters, scallops and clams) in a multi-billion dollar worldwide industry. Elizabeth Gosling who has a huge wealth of research, teaching and hands on experience working with bivalves, has written a landmark book that will stand for many years as the standard work on the subject. Chapters in Bivalve Molluscs cover morphology, ecology, fee

Author: T. E. Thompson
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: notes, identification, species, keys, gastropoda, benthic, opisthobranchs, mollusca, molluscs
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1989-03
List price: $65.71
ISBN-10: 9004084398
ISBN-13: 9789004084391

Author: Alastair Graham
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: species, synopses, british, fauna, identification, notes, prosobranch, pyramidellid, gastropods, keys, molluscs
Number of Pages: 662
Published: 1988-09
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 9004087710
ISBN-13: 9789004087712