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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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... examples Food - web statistics 91 93 93 98 101 105 6. Processes structuring food webs 114 Food - web theory : pattern , process and progress ? Structuring mechanisms 116 120 Connections 136 Part III : Patterns in phytotelm food webs 7 ...
... examples Food - web statistics 91 93 93 98 101 105 6. Processes structuring food webs 114 Food - web theory : pattern , process and progress ? Structuring mechanisms 116 120 Connections 136 Part III : Patterns in phytotelm food webs 7 ...
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... examples from each phytotelm type . The chapter defines key formalisms concerning the food - web statistics which will be used without further explanation in later chapters . The second chap- ter ( Chapter 6 ) in this section reviews ...
... examples from each phytotelm type . The chapter defines key formalisms concerning the food - web statistics which will be used without further explanation in later chapters . The second chap- ter ( Chapter 6 ) in this section reviews ...
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... phytotelm units we have approximated the strength of interactions by taking into account the relative abundances of the species populations that sit at either end of a feeding link ( see for example some of the examples in Chap- ter 9 ) ...
... phytotelm units we have approximated the strength of interactions by taking into account the relative abundances of the species populations that sit at either end of a feeding link ( see for example some of the examples in Chap- ter 9 ) ...
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... type ( but see Fincke 1999 ) . Phytotelm studies lend themselves , like no other set of natural systems , to the comparative study of communities and food webs . The gradual accumu- lation of appropriate faunistic data will open up new ...
... type ( but see Fincke 1999 ) . Phytotelm studies lend themselves , like no other set of natural systems , to the comparative study of communities and food webs . The gradual accumu- lation of appropriate faunistic data will open up new ...
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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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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