Dr. James H. Thorp is a 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 10 books, including five volumes so far in the fourth edition of Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates.Dr Catherine Yule is a Professor of Ecology at the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. She has more than 30 years of experience working on the ecology and diversity of freshwater systems of Southeastern Asia from her academic appointments at Monash University in Malaysia and her academic positions at Australian universities. She previously co-edited Freshwater Invertebrates of the Malaysian Region with Dr Hoi Sen. She is a member of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Society for Conservation Biology, Malaysian Nature Society, International Mire Conservation, Society for Freshwater Science.

• 1. An Introduction to Hexapoda and this Book2. Overview of Freshwater Ecology in Southeastern Asia and Subtropical China3. Collembola: Louis Deharveng, France 4. Ephemeroptera5. Plecoptera6. Orthoptera7. Blattodea 8. Hemiptera:9. Neuroptera10. Megaloptera11. Hymenoptera12. Trichoptera13. Lepidoptera14. Odonata15. Coleoptera16. Diptera