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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... Axil waters Minor categories 3. The container fauna Saprophages Predators Top predators Minor categories 4. The ... Water quantity and quality Temperature and dissolved oxygen regimes 73 vii Contents.
... Axil waters Minor categories 3. The container fauna Saprophages Predators Top predators Minor categories 4. The ... Water quantity and quality Temperature and dissolved oxygen regimes 73 vii Contents.
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... axil waters of Heliconia species in Central America ; Kurihara , Mogi and other Japanese colleagues on phytotelm mosquitoes in Japan and south - east Asia ; and , Machado - Alison and his stu- dents on Venezuelan phytotelms . Structure ...
... axil waters of Heliconia species in Central America ; Kurihara , Mogi and other Japanese colleagues on phytotelm mosquitoes in Japan and south - east Asia ; and , Machado - Alison and his stu- dents on Venezuelan phytotelms . Structure ...
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... water filled . The bract water of each of these inflores- cences is alive with the tiny white larvae of the mosquito ... axil to the next in order to keep up with the appetite that must be satisfied in order to complete the species ...
... water filled . The bract water of each of these inflores- cences is alive with the tiny white larvae of the mosquito ... axil to the next in order to keep up with the appetite that must be satisfied in order to complete the species ...
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... water - filled tree holes , bamboo internodes , and axil waters collected by leaves , bracts or petals are all formed from parts of living plants . In a few instances water - collecting hollows are formed in the fallen parts of plants ...
... water - filled tree holes , bamboo internodes , and axil waters collected by leaves , bracts or petals are all formed from parts of living plants . In a few instances water - collecting hollows are formed in the fallen parts of plants ...
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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