Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates

Dr. James H. Thorp is a professor and senior scientist at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS, United States). Prior to 2001, he was a distinguished professor and dean at Clarkson University, department chair and professor at the University of Louisville, associate professor and director of the Calder Ecology Center at Fordham University, and research ecologist at Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He received his Baccalaureate from the University of Kansas and Masters and PhD degrees from North Carolina State. Prof. Thorp has been on the editorial board of three freshwater journals and is a former president of the International Society for River Science. His research interests run the gamut from organismal biology to community, ecosystem, and macrosystem ecology. While his research emphasizes aquatic invertebrates, he also studies fish ecology, especially food webs related. He has published more than 150 research articles and 10 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.

1. Introduction To Invertebrates Of Inland Waters
2. An Overview Of Inland Water Habitats
3. Protozoa
4. Porifera
5. Cnidaria
6. Flatworms: Turbellarians And Nemertea
7. Gastrotricha
8. Rotifera
9. Nematoda And Nematomorpha
10. Mollusca: Gastropoda
11. Mollusca: Bivalvia
12. Annelida (Clitellata): Oligochaeta, Branchiobdellida,Hirudinida, And Acanthobdellida
13. Bryozoans
14. Tardigrada
15. Water Mites (Hydrachnidiae) And Other Arachnids
16. Diversity And Classification Of Insects And Collembola
17. Aquatic Insect Ecology
18. Introduction To The Subphylum Crustacea
19. Ostracoda
20. Cladocera And Other Branchiopoda
21. Copepoda
22. Decapoda