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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... ecosystem in 1989. During the day the biological riches , at least of the more obvious kinds , are largely to be inferred rather than experienced directly . The clean smooth sand is criss - crossed with tracks of mammal and bird ...
... ecosystem in 1989. During the day the biological riches , at least of the more obvious kinds , are largely to be inferred rather than experienced directly . The clean smooth sand is criss - crossed with tracks of mammal and bird ...
Pagina 5
... ecosystems such as forests , woodlands , or swamps . Accordingly the aquatic organisms which occur within them encounter distinct edges which impose upon the community a discreteness not read- ily found in other more complex ecosystems ...
... ecosystems such as forests , woodlands , or swamps . Accordingly the aquatic organisms which occur within them encounter distinct edges which impose upon the community a discreteness not read- ily found in other more complex ecosystems ...
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... ecosystems and during the period 1986 to 1991 we studied water - filled tree holes in subtropical and , so - called , warm temperate rainfor- est in Dorrigo National Park , and cool temperate Nothofagus - dominated rain- forest at New ...
... ecosystems and during the period 1986 to 1991 we studied water - filled tree holes in subtropical and , so - called , warm temperate rainfor- est in Dorrigo National Park , and cool temperate Nothofagus - dominated rain- forest at New ...
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... ecosystems provides the frame- work for performing such experiments in the field . The ability to reconstruct approximations of phytotelm food webs in the laboratory , also , will continue to play an important role . The field ecologist ...
... ecosystems provides the frame- work for performing such experiments in the field . The ability to reconstruct approximations of phytotelm food webs in the laboratory , also , will continue to play an important role . The field ecologist ...
Pagina 16
... ecosystems present examples and oppor- tunities to students of phytotelmata . In the next three chapters I review the widely scattered and sometimes obscure literature on the plants in which phytotelmata form ( Chapter 2 ) , the range ...
... ecosystems present examples and oppor- tunities to students of phytotelmata . In the next three chapters I review the widely scattered and sometimes obscure literature on the plants in which phytotelmata form ( Chapter 2 ) , the range ...
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