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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... genera of pitchers its predilection for nutrient - poor swamplands . But it is in tropical rainforests that phytotelmata display their full range and ubiquity . To return , by way of example , to the forests and creek beds of the Labi ...
... genera of pitchers its predilection for nutrient - poor swamplands . But it is in tropical rainforests that phytotelmata display their full range and ubiquity . To return , by way of example , to the forests and creek beds of the Labi ...
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... genera . All but one of these species occur in the warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas , from Florida to central Argentina and Chile . The exception , Pitcairnia feliciana , occurs only in Guinea in West Africa ...
... genera . All but one of these species occur in the warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas , from Florida to central Argentina and Chile . The exception , Pitcairnia feliciana , occurs only in Guinea in West Africa ...
Pagina 18
... genera of bromeliads form water bodies of this kind . The communities of animals which occur within bromeliads have been objects of fascination for many years , inspired originally perhaps by the exten- sive and detailed work of Picado ...
... genera of bromeliads form water bodies of this kind . The communities of animals which occur within bromeliads have been objects of fascination for many years , inspired originally perhaps by the exten- sive and detailed work of Picado ...
Pagina 20
... genera or species Tillandsia spp . General General Subject matter Bibliography Population dynamics of eleven species of ostracod Faunal associates , particularly Odonata , in Venezuela Fauna associated with bromeliads in Costa Rica ...
... genera or species Tillandsia spp . General General Subject matter Bibliography Population dynamics of eleven species of ostracod Faunal associates , particularly Odonata , in Venezuela Fauna associated with bromeliads in Costa Rica ...
Pagina 21
... genera spread across three unrelated families in three different biogeographical regions . All species possess modified leaves or exten- sions of leaves which form watertight bodies which collect liquid . These act as pitfall traps for ...
... genera spread across three unrelated families in three different biogeographical regions . All species possess modified leaves or exten- sions of leaves which form watertight bodies which collect liquid . These act as pitfall traps for ...
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