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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... insects , particularly in rainforests . He is a senior investigator within the Cooperative Research Centre for ... Insect Ecology and has edited or co - edited four further books on topics ranging from the ecol- ogy of pests to the ...
... insects , particularly in rainforests . He is a senior investigator within the Cooperative Research Centre for ... Insect Ecology and has edited or co - edited four further books on topics ranging from the ecol- ogy of pests to the ...
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... insect : here the measured marks of a monitor lizard scavenging for carrion , eggs and nestlings ; there , the dainty steps of forest rats . A honking flight of bushy- crested hornbills sweeping overhead and the distant exuberance of a ...
... insect : here the measured marks of a monitor lizard scavenging for carrion , eggs and nestlings ; there , the dainty steps of forest rats . A honking flight of bushy- crested hornbills sweeping overhead and the distant exuberance of a ...
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... insects and other arthro- pods which drown in the fluid contained in the pitchers . They are digested by plant exudates , and the nitrogen - rich nutrients so produced are absorbed by the plant enabling them , inter alia , to live in ...
... insects and other arthro- pods which drown in the fluid contained in the pitchers . They are digested by plant exudates , and the nitrogen - rich nutrients so produced are absorbed by the plant enabling them , inter alia , to live in ...
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... insects originating from water - filled plant containers to a classical Chinese source . Ch'en Ts'ang - ch'i , writing during the T'ang dynasty sometime between 618 and 905 AD , is quoted by them as follows : Beyond the Great Wall there ...
... insects originating from water - filled plant containers to a classical Chinese source . Ch'en Ts'ang - ch'i , writing during the T'ang dynasty sometime between 618 and 905 AD , is quoted by them as follows : Beyond the Great Wall there ...
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... insects which change into mosquitoes . ( Pen T'sao Shih - yi ) Nevertheless Varga ( 1928 ) brought this class of habitats into the ken of sci- entists and , in particular , to the attention of Albrecht Thienemann . Thiene- mann is ...
... insects which change into mosquitoes . ( Pen T'sao Shih - yi ) Nevertheless Varga ( 1928 ) brought this class of habitats into the ken of sci- entists and , in particular , to the attention of Albrecht Thienemann . Thiene- mann is ...
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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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