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Bivalve Molluscs: Biology, Ecology and Culture

ISBN: 978-0-852-38234-9

January 2003

Wiley-Blackwell

456 pages

Description
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, feeding, reproduction, settlement and recruitment, growth, physiology, fisheries, aquaculture, genetics, diseases and parasites, and public health issues. A full understanding of many of these aspects is vital for all those working in bivalve fisheries and culture.


An essential purchase for anyone concerned with this important class of animals, copies of Bivalve Molluscs should be on the shelves of biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, fisheries scientists and personnel within the aquaculture industry. Copies of the book should be available in all libraries and research establishments where these subjects are studied or taught.


Elizabeth Gosling is based at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland.

About the Author
Elizabrth Gosling is based at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland.
Features
* comprehensive essential purchase for all shellfish farming industry personnel
* author has an international reputation in shellfish research and has more than 15 years' experience in teaching shellfish biology to undergraduate students