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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... occur in one form or another in a very wide range of ecosystems from subarctic bogs (Sarracenia pitchers) to anthropogenic road verges (Dipsacus axils, Angelica axils, etc.) to deciduous woodlands (tree holes). Container habitats occur ...
... occur in one form or another in a very wide range of ecosystems from subarctic bogs (Sarracenia pitchers) to anthropogenic road verges (Dipsacus axils, Angelica axils, etc.) to deciduous woodlands (tree holes). Container habitats occur ...
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The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. occur within them, and the sometimes curious and always interesting ecological interactions and other processes which occur within them form a legitimate base for their ...
The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. occur within them, and the sometimes curious and always interesting ecological interactions and other processes which occur within them form a legitimate base for their ...
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... addition the chapter explores the biological mechanisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at. Fig. 1.1. The structure and logic of the book. Fig. 2.2. Cut-away schematic of the community found in an. 10 ...
... addition the chapter explores the biological mechanisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at. Fig. 1.1. The structure and logic of the book. Fig. 2.2. Cut-away schematic of the community found in an. 10 ...
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The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. anisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, and in so doing poses a series of hypotheses which are ...
The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata R. L. Kitching. anisms which may occur to structure food webs within phytotelmata at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, and in so doing poses a series of hypotheses which are ...
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... occur in freshwater systems such as ponds and lakes, not in phytotelms (although the related chaoborid Corethrella appendiculata does – see Annexe). Nevertheless Moore (1988) and Moore & Gilbert (1987) were able to show very clear ...
... occur in freshwater systems such as ponds and lakes, not in phytotelms (although the related chaoborid Corethrella appendiculata does – see Annexe). Nevertheless Moore (1988) and Moore & Gilbert (1987) were able to show very clear ...
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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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