Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of PhytotelmataCambridge University Press, 3 aug 2000 - 431 pagina's The animal communities in plant-held water bodies, such as tree holes and pitcher plants, have become models for food-web studies. In this book, Professor Kitching introduces us to these fascinating miniature worlds and demonstrates how they can be used to tackle some of the major questions in community ecology. Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others. The book covers many aspects of the theory of food-web formation and maintenance presented with field-collected information on tree holes, bromeliads, pitcher plants, bamboo containers and the axils of fleshy plants. It is a unique introduction for the field naturalist and a stimulating source treatment for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of tropical and other forest ecology, as well as entomology. |
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... chapter, in May and June 1989, I assisted Charles Clarke in his studies of Nepenthes pitcher plants in northern Borneo. The results of these studies are presented in Clarke & Kitching (1993). A full account of the work comprises ...
... chapter, in May and June 1989, I assisted Charles Clarke in his studies of Nepenthes pitcher plants in northern Borneo. The results of these studies are presented in Clarke & Kitching (1993). A full account of the work comprises ...
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... chapter presents an essay within areas of natural history and ecology and those with more specialised interests will ... chapters into five parts after this Introduction. I have prefaced each of these parts with a word picture of some of ...
... chapter presents an essay within areas of natural history and ecology and those with more specialised interests will ... chapters into five parts after this Introduction. I have prefaced each of these parts with a word picture of some of ...
Pagina 10
... chapter (Chapter 6) in this section reviews segments of the theory of food webs from the recent literature. In addition the chapter explores the biological mechanisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at. Fig ...
... chapter (Chapter 6) in this section reviews segments of the theory of food webs from the recent literature. In addition the chapter explores the biological mechanisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at. Fig ...
Pagina 11
... Chapter 12 describes, more or less parenthetically, investigations on the processes of competition and predation in phytotelm systems or their analogues relevant to an understanding of community structuring. In Chapter 13, however, I ...
... Chapter 12 describes, more or less parenthetically, investigations on the processes of competition and predation in phytotelm systems or their analogues relevant to an understanding of community structuring. In Chapter 13, however, I ...
Pagina 13
... Chapter 9). Techniques using stable isotope labelling do offer the opportunity to quantify the strength of feeding links much more directly. Again phytotelm food webs provide an ideal opportunity to quantify these interaction strengths ...
... Chapter 9). Techniques using stable isotope labelling do offer the opportunity to quantify the strength of feeding links much more directly. Again phytotelm food webs provide an ideal opportunity to quantify these interaction strengths ...
Inhoudsopgave
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15 | |
Methods and theories | 91 |
Patterns in phytotelm food webs | 137 |
Processes structuring food webs | 253 |
Synthesis | 291 |
References | 385 |
Index | 419 |
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abundance albomarginata ampullaria analyses aquatic Australia axil waters axils bamboo bamboo internodes Beaver bicalcarata Borneo bracts Bradshaw Brazil Bromeliads Brunei ceratopogonid Chapter chironomid Clarke & Kitching co-occurring complex container habitats Culicidae Curcuma Dasyhelea detritus Diptera Ecology Fashing fauna feeding links Figure food webs food-web statistics food-web structure forest genera genus Guinea habitat unit Heliconia Hypothesis Indonesia inflorescences insects Laessle Lamington Lamington National Park larvae latitude Leaf axil Lounibos Malaysia Metriocnemus midge mites Mogi mosquito Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthes ampullaria Nepenthes bicalcarata Nepenthes pitchers Number of feeding number of predators number of species number of trophic occur organisms particular patterns phytotelmata Pimm pitcher plants pitchers of Nepenthes Prediction present processes Queensland rainfall rainforest range recorded rot holes samples saprophages Sarracenia Sarracenia purpurea scale South-east spatial species of Nepenthes studies Sulawesi summarised Table Thienemann 1934 top predators Toxorhynchites tree-hole trophic levels variables water bodies water-filled tree holes