How Long to Read Diving Beetles of the World

How Long Does it Take to Read Diving Beetles of the World?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Diving Beetles of the World by Kelly B. Miller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The first comprehensive book in more than a century to reveal the diversity and natural history of diving beetles. Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species are commonly known as diving beetles. No comprehensive treatment of this group has been compiled in over 130 years, a period during which a great many changes in classification and a near quadrupling of known species has occurred. In Diving Beetles of the World, Kelly B. Miller and Johannes Bergsten provide the only full treatments of all 188 Dytiscid genera ever assembled. Entomologists, systematists, limnologists, ecologists, and others with an interest in aquatic systems or insect diversity will find these extensively illustrated keys and taxon accounts immensely helpful. The keys make it possible to identify all taxa from subfamily to genera, and each key and taxon treatment is accompanied by both photographs and detailed pen-and-ink drawings of diagnostic features. Every genus account covers body length, diagnostic characters, classification, species diversity, a review of known natural history, and world distribution. Each account is also accompanied by a range map and at least one high-resolution habitus image of a specimen. Diving beetles are fast becoming important models for aquatic ecology, world biogeography, population ecology, and animal sexual evolution and, with this book, the diversity of the group is finally accessible.

How long is Diving Beetles of the World?

Diving Beetles of the World by Kelly B. Miller is 333 pages long, and a total of 84,249 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Diving Beetles of the World Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Diving Beetles of the World aloud.

What Reading Level is Diving Beetles of the World?

Diving Beetles of the World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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