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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... particular ) , Francis Gilbert ( Syrphidae ) , Norm Fashing ( Acari ) , John Cadle ( Anura ) , Michael Lai ( Anura ) and Stephen Richards ( Anura ) . I express my particular thanks to Stephen Richards who provided me with some key late ...
... particular ) , Francis Gilbert ( Syrphidae ) , Norm Fashing ( Acari ) , John Cadle ( Anura ) , Michael Lai ( Anura ) and Stephen Richards ( Anura ) . I express my particular thanks to Stephen Richards who provided me with some key late ...
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... 1904 ) . Alfred Russel Wallace , visiting Borneo in the 1850s in pursuit of beetles , butterflies and birds , noted the faunal contrasts between the Bornean animals and those of the islands to the east , in particular that 1 1 Introduction.
... 1904 ) . Alfred Russel Wallace , visiting Borneo in the 1850s in pursuit of beetles , butterflies and birds , noted the faunal contrasts between the Bornean animals and those of the islands to the east , in particular that 1 1 Introduction.
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... particular that of the Celebes ( Wallace 1869 ) . The mass of natural historical information accrued by Wallace gelled in a burst of inspiration that came to him , immured by rain , and light - headed with malaria , in a Ternate ...
... particular that of the Celebes ( Wallace 1869 ) . The mass of natural historical information accrued by Wallace gelled in a burst of inspiration that came to him , immured by rain , and light - headed with malaria , in a Ternate ...
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... particular , to the attention of Albrecht Thienemann . Thiene- mann is deservedly regarded as one of the great organising forces in ecology and limnology in Europe from the early part of the twentieth century until the 1950s . As ...
... particular , to the attention of Albrecht Thienemann . Thiene- mann is deservedly regarded as one of the great organising forces in ecology and limnology in Europe from the early part of the twentieth century until the 1950s . As ...
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... particular the work of the following researchers form an indispensable part of the foundation for this work : Beaver on Nepenthes pitcher plants in West Malaysia ; Bradshaw , Frank , Lounibos and many others on phytotelm mosquitoes in ...
... particular the work of the following researchers form an indispensable part of the foundation for this work : Beaver on Nepenthes pitcher plants in West Malaysia ; Bradshaw , Frank , Lounibos and many others on phytotelm mosquitoes in ...
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