Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates Keys to Hexapoda of Southeast Asia and Subtropical China

Catherine Yule is Professor of Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. For more than 35 years she has undertaken pioneering research on the ecology and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Her PhD research on stream ecology on Bougainville Island was followed by work as an environmental consultant in Indonesian Borneo, and then many years at Monash University Malaysia, where she introduced thousands of students to tropical aquatic ecology. Her interdisciplinary research covers tropical and subtropical rivers, lakes and wetlands, with particular emphasis on peatlands, from the peat swamp forests of Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo to the subtropical peatlands of Queensland. She previously co-edited Freshwater Invertebrates of the Malaysian Region (2004) with Dr H. S. Yong.

Dr. James H. Thorp is an emeritus 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 120 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.