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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... 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 trop- ical and other forest ecology , as well as ...
... 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 trop- ical and other forest ecology , as well as ...
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... axils and stumps of the European beech tree Fagus sylvatica as well as the water bodies collected in a variety of leaf axils such as those he himself studied in the teasel . Russian work by Alpatoff ( 1922 ) on the water bodies ...
... axils and stumps of the European beech tree Fagus sylvatica as well as the water bodies collected in a variety of leaf axils such as those he himself studied in the teasel . Russian work by Alpatoff ( 1922 ) on the water bodies ...
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... axils , Angelica axils , etc. ) to deciduous woodlands ( tree holes ) . Container habitats occur on some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible of locations on the face of the Earth . Heliamphora pitchers are commonly found only on ...
... axils , Angelica axils , etc. ) to deciduous woodlands ( tree holes ) . Container habitats occur on some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible of locations on the face of the Earth . Heliamphora pitchers are commonly found only on ...
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... axils of an undescribed species of Freycinetia ( Pan- danaceae ) and the bract axils of the inflorescences of the so - called ' backscratcher ginger ' , Tapeinocheilus ananassae . A few observations of ani- mals occurring in fallen rat ...
... axils of an undescribed species of Freycinetia ( Pan- danaceae ) and the bract axils of the inflorescences of the so - called ' backscratcher ginger ' , Tapeinocheilus ananassae . A few observations of ani- mals occurring in fallen rat ...
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... axils which overlap tightly to form watertight cavities . The outer , more mature leaves form discrete water bodies ; the younger , inner leaf axils combine to form a common pool ( Beutelspacher 1971 , Zahl 1975 , Frank 1983 ) ( Figure ...
... axils which overlap tightly to form watertight cavities . The outer , more mature leaves form discrete water bodies ; the younger , inner leaf axils combine to form a common pool ( Beutelspacher 1971 , Zahl 1975 , Frank 1983 ) ( Figure ...
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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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