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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... habitat units Dimensions and volumetric capacity Detritus dynamics vii 1 3469 11 15 17 17 21 25 32 35 38 43 44 50 53 54 57 58 64 69 Water quantity and quality Temperature and dissolved oxygen regimes 73 vii Contents.
... habitat units Dimensions and volumetric capacity Detritus dynamics vii 1 3469 11 15 17 17 21 25 32 35 38 43 44 50 53 54 57 58 64 69 Water quantity and quality Temperature and dissolved oxygen regimes 73 vii Contents.
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... habitat units Connections 232 233 236 241 251 Part IV : Processes structuring food webs 253 12. Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community ? 255 Some theory 255 The mosquitoes of North America - the ghost of ...
... habitat units Connections 232 233 236 241 251 Part IV : Processes structuring food webs 253 12. Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community ? 255 Some theory 255 The mosquitoes of North America - the ghost of ...
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... habitat units provided by dung pats , macro- fungus fruiting bodies , fallen logs and so forth . • The replicated , faunistically simple and ( usually ) accessible units pro- vided by phytotelmata together with their structural ...
... habitat units provided by dung pats , macro- fungus fruiting bodies , fallen logs and so forth . • The replicated , faunistically simple and ( usually ) accessible units pro- vided by phytotelmata together with their structural ...
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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