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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... forest ecology , as well as entomology . ROGER L. KITCHING holds the Chair of Ecology at Griffith University , Bris- bane . A graduate of Imperial College , London , and the University of Oxford , he has spent the greater part of his ...
... forest ecology , as well as entomology . ROGER L. KITCHING holds the Chair of Ecology at Griffith University , Bris- bane . A graduate of Imperial College , London , and the University of Oxford , he has spent the greater part of his ...
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... forest , presumably by eons of silt deposition during occasional periods of inundation and stream flow . But now , in May , the water flow is a mere trickle , winding around patches of tar seepage ; here , not the product of human error ...
... forest , presumably by eons of silt deposition during occasional periods of inundation and stream flow . But now , in May , the water flow is a mere trickle , winding around patches of tar seepage ; here , not the product of human error ...
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... forest . But these small perched water bodies offer themselves as habitats for other species of animals which exploit the isolation and pro- tection offered by the pitchers and cream off some of the nutrient base for — themselves . A ...
... forest . But these small perched water bodies offer themselves as habitats for other species of animals which exploit the isolation and pro- tection offered by the pitchers and cream off some of the nutrient base for — themselves . A ...
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... forest canopies in which species richness may be measured in hundreds of species and the number of potential feeding links is much larger . • Most phytotelmata occur within larger ecosystems as a series of units scattered spatially ...
... forest canopies in which species richness may be measured in hundreds of species and the number of potential feeding links is much larger . • Most phytotelmata occur within larger ecosystems as a series of units scattered spatially ...
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... forest at New England and Werrikimbe National Parks . The basic results are incorporated in the comparative analyses presented later in this work . Exper- imental manipulations of energy supply patterns to analogues of these tree holes ...
... forest at New England and Werrikimbe National Parks . The basic results are incorporated in the comparative analyses presented later in this work . Exper- imental manipulations of energy supply patterns to analogues of these tree holes ...
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