Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Contents at a glance
• Extended Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Contributors
• Illustrators and Photographers
• Part 1: Introduction to Echinoderms
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Ecology and Behaviour
• 3: Echinoderm Life Histories
• 4: Management: Fisheries, Ferals and Conservation
• 5: Biogeography
• 6: Phylogeny and Geological History
• Part 2: Echinoderm Diversity
• 7: Class CRINOIDEA
• 8: Class ASTEROIDEA
• 9: Class OPHIUROIDEA
• 10: Class ECHINOIDEA
• 11: Class HOLOTHUROIDEA
• References
• Index

About the Author

Maria Byrne is Professor of Marine and Developmental Biology at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are on the biology, ecology, conservation and evolution in marine invertebrates with a focus on echinoderms from across the globe and more recently on the impacts of climate change.

Timothy O'Hara has been researching echinoderms since high school. Since becoming a curator at Museums Victoria in 2001, his research has focused on using the vast amounts of data and specimens stored in museum collections to address issues of biodiversity conservation and management. He has conducted biodiversity and ecological surveys, mapped the distribution of seafloor animals across oceans, used extracted DNA to study evolution, and described many beautiful new species.