Alain Maasri Editor

Dr. Alain Maasri is a freshwater ecologist at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Berlin, Germany), and a Research Associate at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA). He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Université Aix-Marseille in France where he examined the ecology and functioning of Mediterranean streams. His research interests include community ecology and functional ecology of stream macroinvertebrates, and more specifically chironomid midges (Diptera). Dr. Maasri has been researching freshwater ecosystems and benthic communities for over 10 years, across the Mediterranean basin, Mongolia and the USA. Dr James Thorp was senior editor (with Alan Covich) for the prior editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, which has developed into a multi-volume, global work for this edition. He also published in 2008 The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis (Thorp, Thoms, and Delong) and Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America in 2011 (Thorp and Rogers). He has contributed and authored approximately 100 chapters, books, and publications in journals (e.g., BioScience, Ecology, Freshwater Biology, Freshwater Science, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Oecologia, Oikos, River Research and Applications, and River Systems). He is on the Editorial Boards for River Research and Applications and River Systems; former Assoc. Editor of Freshwater Invertebrate Biology (now Freshwater Science) and has reviewed multiple journal articles and books along with grant proposals for NSF, DOE, EPA, etc.; NSF and EPA panel member. He has been assisting the EPA as an Expert intermittently since 2008, is a former Assoc Director for the Center for Environmental Management at Clarkson and a Past President for the International Society for River Science. This book will be the fifth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.