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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 7
... food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in Kitching ( 1987a ) and Kitching & Beaver ( 1990 ) . Results of our earliest manipulative experiments , carried out here , are in Pimm & Kitching ( 1987 ) ...
... food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in Kitching ( 1987a ) and Kitching & Beaver ( 1990 ) . Results of our earliest manipulative experiments , carried out here , are in Pimm & Kitching ( 1987 ) ...
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... web by presenting examples from each phytotelm type . The chapter defines key formalisms concerning the food - web statistics which will be used without further explanation in later ... structure food webs within phytotelmata. 10 ...
... web by presenting examples from each phytotelm type . The chapter defines key formalisms concerning the food - web statistics which will be used without further explanation in later ... structure food webs within phytotelmata. 10 ...
Pagina 11
... food- web structure in phytotelms and will act as a model within which future work may be designed and placed in a wider context . The future At the very outset of a work such as this it is entirely appropriate to look beyond the ...
... food- web structure in phytotelms and will act as a model within which future work may be designed and placed in a wider context . The future At the very outset of a work such as this it is entirely appropriate to look beyond the ...
Pagina 13
... Food webs , as we draw them cus- tomarily , do not weight these links to ... web dynamics in any system but repre- sents a far from simple task . In our studies of ... structure , environ- mental conditions and so forth is an exciting and ...
... Food webs , as we draw them cus- tomarily , do not weight these links to ... web dynamics in any system but repre- sents a far from simple task . In our studies of ... structure , environ- mental conditions and so forth is an exciting and ...
Pagina 24
... food - web structure . As indicated in Chap- ter 1 , Charles Clarke spent an extended period of time in the field in north- ern Borneo studying the communities within pitchers of six co - occurring species of Nepenthes ( Clarke 1992 ...
... food - web structure . As indicated in Chap- ter 1 , Charles Clarke spent an extended period of time in the field in north- ern Borneo studying the communities within pitchers of six co - occurring species of Nepenthes ( Clarke 1992 ...
Inhoudsopgave
1 | |
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