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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 3
... aquatic habitats that occur as plant - based containers and , in 1928 , the German biologist Ludwig Varga coined the term phytotelmata for the whole class of such ecological situations . Varga carried out extensive work on the flora and ...
... aquatic habitats that occur as plant - based containers and , in 1928 , the German biologist Ludwig Varga coined the term phytotelmata for the whole class of such ecological situations . Varga carried out extensive work on the flora and ...
Pagina 4
... aquatic science throughout much of this period . Thienemann organised a major German research effort in the East Indies , the Deutsche Limnologische Sunda - expedition , the Proceedings of which appeared as supplements to the Archiv für ...
... aquatic science throughout much of this period . Thienemann organised a major German research effort in the East Indies , the Deutsche Limnologische Sunda - expedition , the Proceedings of which appeared as supplements to the Archiv für ...
Pagina 5
... aquatic but are located within terrestrial or semi - terrestrial ecosystems such as forests , woodlands , or swamps . Accordingly the aquatic organisms which occur within them encounter distinct edges which impose upon the community a ...
... aquatic but are located within terrestrial or semi - terrestrial ecosystems such as forests , woodlands , or swamps . Accordingly the aquatic organisms which occur within them encounter distinct edges which impose upon the community a ...
Pagina 17
... aquatic metazoan fauna has been recorded I draw heavily on the reviews of Thienemann ( 1934 , 1954 ) , Kitching ( 1971 ) and Fish ( 1983 ) . Fish ( 1983 ) estimates that more than 1500 plant species may form phytotelmata . Given that ...
... aquatic metazoan fauna has been recorded I draw heavily on the reviews of Thienemann ( 1934 , 1954 ) , Kitching ( 1971 ) and Fish ( 1983 ) . Fish ( 1983 ) estimates that more than 1500 plant species may form phytotelmata . Given that ...
Pagina 18
... aquatic organisms well outside the plants ' natural range . Thienemann ( 1934 ) , for example , recorded organisms from bromeliads growing in the Bogor botanic garden in his survey of con- tainer habitats in South - east Asia . All so ...
... aquatic organisms well outside the plants ' natural range . Thienemann ( 1934 ) , for example , recorded organisms from bromeliads growing in the Bogor botanic garden in his survey of con- tainer habitats in South - east Asia . All so ...
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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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