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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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Pagina 18
... Table 2.1 reviews the literature on the aquatic communities which live in bromeliads. In this and other tables in this chapter I have omitted simple faunistic references to the occurrence of particular organisms in various phytotelmata ...
... Table 2.1 reviews the literature on the aquatic communities which live in bromeliads. In this and other tables in this chapter I have omitted simple faunistic references to the occurrence of particular organisms in various phytotelmata ...
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... Table 2.2. Albrecht Thienemann (1932) carried out the first critical investigations of Nepenthes faunas working on species in Sumatra and Java. The work of Beaver, both in describing the insect associates of pitchers from West Malaysia ...
... Table 2.2. Albrecht Thienemann (1932) carried out the first critical investigations of Nepenthes faunas working on species in Sumatra and Java. The work of Beaver, both in describing the insect associates of pitchers from West Malaysia ...
Pagina 25
... Table 2.2, the in-fauna of Sarracenia purpurea has been much studied. This has focused on the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii and, to a lesser extent, the chironomid midge Metriocnemus knabi. Few authors have directed their attention at the ...
... Table 2.2, the in-fauna of Sarracenia purpurea has been much studied. This has focused on the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii and, to a lesser extent, the chironomid midge Metriocnemus knabi. Few authors have directed their attention at the ...
Pagina 30
... Table 2.3 reviews this literature. Table 2.3. Key works on the aquatic fauna associated with 40 40 30 The container flora.
... Table 2.3 reviews this literature. Table 2.3. Key works on the aquatic fauna associated with 40 40 30 The container flora.
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The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. Table 2.3. Key works on the aquatic fauna associated with water-filled tree holes (excluding those dealing exclusively with mosquitoes – see Tables A.5, A.6) Author(s) Year ...
The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. Table 2.3. Key works on the aquatic fauna associated with water-filled tree holes (excluding those dealing exclusively with mosquitoes – see Tables A.5, A.6) Author(s) Year ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of ... Roger Laurence Kitching Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2000 |
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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